Comparative studies of multi-criteria decision making with application to condition monitoring of a ship turbine

Proceedings of the Institution of Mechanical Engineers Part M: Journal of Engineering for the Maritime Environment

Volumn 225, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 149-160

  Gaonkar, R S Prabhu ^a   Xie, M ^a   Habibullah, M S ^b   Verma, A K ^c  

^a NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF SINGAPORE   (Singapore)

^b INSTITUTE OF HIGH PERFORMANCE COMPUTING   (Singapore)

^c INDIAN INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY BOMBAY   (India)

Author keywords

Analytical hierarchy process; Conditionmonitoring technique; Evidential reasoning; Fuzzy set; Multi criteria decision making

Indexed keywords

ANALYTICAL HIERARCHY PROCESS; COMPARATIVE STUDIES; DEMPSTER-SHAFER THEORY; EVIDENTIAL REASONING; EVIDENTIAL REASONING APPROACHES; INCOMPLETE INFORMATION; MULTI-CRITERIA DECISION MAKING; RANKING PROBLEMS; SUBJECTIVE INFORMATION; MULTI CRITERIA DECISION MAKING;

DECISION MAKING; FORMAL LOGIC; FUZZY SETS; SHIPS; TURBINES; MONITORING;

CONDITION MONITORING;

EID: 79959364861     PISSN: 14750902     EISSN: 20413084     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1475090210397437     Document Type: Article

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