Framework for Computing a Performance Index for Urban Infrastructure Systems Using a Fuzzy Set Approach

Journal of Infrastructure Systems

Volumn 17, Issue 4, 2012, Pages 163-175

  Khatri, Krishna B ^a,b   Vairavamoorthy, Kalanithy ^a   Akinyemi, Edward ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH FLORIDA   (United States)

^b DELFT UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Analytic hierarchy process; Fuzzy set; Fuzzy synthetic evaluation; Multicriteria analysis; Performance framework; Performance index; Performance indicators; Urban infrastructure systems; Weighting

Indexed keywords

FUZZY SYNTHETIC EVALUATION; MULTI CRITERIA ANALYSIS; PERFORMANCE FRAMEWORK; PERFORMANCE INDICATORS; PERFORMANCE INDICES; URBAN INFRASTRUCTURE SYSTEM; WEIGHTING;

ANALYTIC HIERARCHY PROCESS; BENCHMARKING; FUZZY SET THEORY; FUZZY SETS; HIERARCHICAL SYSTEMS; URBAN PLANNING;

INVESTMENTS;

ANALYTICAL HIERARCHY PROCESS; FUZZY MATHEMATICS; INFRASTRUCTURE PLANNING; MULTICRITERIA ANALYSIS; PERFORMANCE ASSESSMENT; URBAN AREA; URBAN PLANNING;

BAGMATI; KATHMANDU; NEPAL;

EID: 84855974705     PISSN: 10760342     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1061/(ASCE)IS.1943-555X.0000062     Document Type: Article

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