Emergency alternative evaluation under group decision makers: A method of incorporating DS/AHP with extended TOPSIS

Expert Systems with Applications

Volumn 39, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 1315-1323

  Ju, Yanbing ^a   Wang, Aihua ^b  

^a BEIJING INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (China)

^b PEKING UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Analytic hierarchy process; Belief interval; Decision matrix; Dempster Shafer theory; Group multi criteria decision making; TOPSIS

Indexed keywords

BELIEF INTERVAL; DECISION MATRICES; DEMPSTER-SHAFER THEORY; MULTI-CRITERIA DECISION MAKING; TOPSIS;

ANALYTIC HIERARCHY PROCESS; CIVIL DEFENSE; DECISION THEORY; DISASTERS; FORMAL LOGIC; PROBABILITY; RISK MANAGEMENT;

DECISION MAKING;

EID: 81855164884     PISSN: 09574174     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.eswa.2011.08.012     Document Type: Article

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