A Superiority-Inferiority-Based Inexact Fuzzy Stochastic Programming Approach for Solid Waste Management Under Uncertainty

Environmental Modeling and Assessment

Volumn 15, Issue 5, 2010, Pages 381-396

  Tan, Qian ^a,b   Huang, Gordon H ^a   Cai, Yanpeng ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF REGINA   (Canada)

^b BEIJING NORMAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Fuzzy random boundary interval; Fuzzy random variable; Interval parameter; Optimization; Uncertainty; Waste management

Indexed keywords

FUZZY SYSTEMS; MUNICIPAL SOLID WASTE; OPTIMIZATION; PROBABILITY DISTRIBUTIONS; STOCHASTIC MODELS; STOCHASTIC PROGRAMMING; STOCHASTIC SYSTEMS;

APPLICABLE CONDITIONS; CONSTRAINT VIOLATION; ENVIRONMENTAL OBJECTIVES; FUZZY RANDOM; FUZZY RANDOM VARIABLE; INTERVAL PARAMETER; MANAGEMENT PROBLEMS; UNCERTAINTY;

WASTE MANAGEMENT;

FUZZY MATHEMATICS; MUNICIPAL SOLID WASTE; OPTIMIZATION; PLANNING METHOD; UNCERTAINTY ANALYSIS; WASTE MANAGEMENT;

EID: 79958770603     PISSN: 14202026     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10666-009-9214-6     Document Type: Article

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