Waste management project's alternatives: A risk-based multi-criteria assessment (RBMCA) approach

Waste Management

Volumn 32, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 194-212

  Karmperis, Athanasios C ^a   Sotirchos, Anastasios ^a   Aravossis, Konstantinos ^a   Tatsiopoulos, Ilias P ^a  

^a NATIONAL TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF ATHENS   (Greece)

Author keywords

Benefit cost; Monte Carlo simulation; Multi criteria assessment; Project's alternatives; Risk preference; Waste management projects

Indexed keywords

BENEFIT-COST; MONTE CARLO SIMULATION; MULTI-CRITERIA ASSESSMENT; PROJECT'S ALTERNATIVES; RISK PREFERENCE; WASTE MANAGEMENT PROJECTS;

COMPUTER SIMULATION; COST BENEFIT ANALYSIS; DECISION MAKING; DISTRIBUTION FUNCTIONS; INCINERATION; MONTE CARLO METHODS; PROBABILITY DISTRIBUTIONS; RATING; RISK ANALYSIS; RISK ASSESSMENT; WASTE INCINERATION;

WASTE MANAGEMENT;

COMPUTER SIMULATION; INCINERATION; MONTE CARLO ANALYSIS; MULTICRITERIA ANALYSIS; PROJECT MANAGEMENT; RISK ASSESSMENT; WASTE MANAGEMENT;

ANALYTIC METHOD; ARTICLE; COST BENEFIT ANALYSIS; DECISION MAKING; INCINERATION; MONTE CARLO METHOD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROBABILITY; PROCESS OPTIMIZATION; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; RISK ASSESSMENT; RISK BASED MULTI CRITERIA ASSESSMENT APPROACH; SOCIOECONOMICS; WASTE MANAGEMENT;

COST-BENEFIT ANALYSIS; DECISION SUPPORT TECHNIQUES; MONTE CARLO METHOD; RISK ASSESSMENT; WASTE MANAGEMENT;

EID: 80055102546     PISSN: 0956053X     EISSN: 18792456     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.wasman.2011.09.001     Document Type: Article

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