A value function for assessing sustainability: Application to industrial buildings

Sustainability

Volumn 3, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 35-50

  Alarcon, Bibiana ^a   Aguado, Antonio ^a   Manga, Resmundo ^a   Josa, Alejandro ^a  

^a UNIVERSITAT POLITÈCNICA DE CATALUNYA   (Spain)

Author keywords

Decision making; Industrial building; Multi attribute analysis; Sustainability; Value function

Indexed keywords

DECISION MAKING; DECISION SUPPORT SYSTEMS; OFFICE BUILDINGS;

DECISION MAKERS; DECISION SUPPORT TOOLS; GENERAL EQUATIONS; INDUSTRIAL BUILDINGS; MULTI-ATTRIBUTE ANALYSIS; PHYSICAL MEANINGS; S-SHAPED; VALUE FUNCTIONS;

SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT;

EID: 84856808729     PISSN: 20711050     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3390/su3010035     Document Type: Article

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