A comparative study on the ranking performance of some multi-criteria decision-making methods for industrial robot selection

International Journal of Industrial Engineering Computations

Volumn 2, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 831-850

  Athawale, Vijay Manikrao ^a   Chakraborty, Shankar ^b  

^a Government Polytechnic   (India)

^b JADAVPUR UNIVERSITY   (India)

Author keywords

Kendall"s coefficient of concordance; MCDM method; Ranking performance; Robot selection; Spearman"s rank correlation coefficient

Indexed keywords

EID: 84857186147     PISSN: 19232926     EISSN: 19232934     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5267/j.ijiec.2011.05.002     Document Type: Article

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