Fuzzy Group Decision Making for the Selection of Facility Location

Group Decision and Negotiation

Volumn 20, Issue 6, 2011, Pages 725-740

  Ertuǧrul, Irfan ^a  

^a PAMUKKALE UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

Author keywords

Facility location; Fuzzy logic; Fuzzy TOPSIS; Group decision making; Multi criteria decision making

Indexed keywords

EID: 80053626477     PISSN: 09262644     EISSN: 15729907     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10726-010-9219-1     Document Type: Article

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