Water Resources Allocation Using Solution Concepts of Fuzzy Cooperative Games: Fuzzy Least Core and Fuzzy Weak Least Core

Water Resources Management

Volumn 25, Issue 10, 2011, Pages 2543-2573

  Sadegh, Mojtaba ^a   Kerachian, Reza ^b  

^a University of California at Irvine   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TEHRAN   (Iran)

Author keywords

Benefit allocation; Cooperative game theory; Fuzzy least core; Fuzzy Shapley value; Fuzzy weak least core; Water resources allocation

Indexed keywords

BENEFIT ALLOCATION; COOPERATIVE GAME THEORY; LEAST CORE; SHAPLEY VALUE; WATER RESOURCES ALLOCATION;

GAME THEORY; OPTIMIZATION; RESOURCE ALLOCATION; WATERSHEDS;

WATER RESOURCES;

CONCEPTUAL FRAMEWORK; FUZZY MATHEMATICS; GAME THEORY; LEAST SQUARES METHOD; NUMERICAL MODEL; RESOURCE ALLOCATION; STAKEHOLDER; WATER RESOURCE;

IRAN; KAROON BASIN; KHUZESTAN;

EID: 79960741639     PISSN: 09204741     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11269-011-9826-x     Document Type: Article

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