Decision making under conflicting environment: A new MCDM method

International Journal of Applied Decision Sciences

Volumn 5, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 142-162

  Das, Manik Chandra ^a   Sarkar, Bijan ^b   Ray, Siddhartha ^c  

^a MCKV INSTITUTE OF ENGINEERING   (India)

^b JADAVPUR UNIVERSITY   (India)

^c NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF TECHNICAL TEACHERS TRAINING AND RESEARCH   (India)

Author keywords

MCDM; MOORA; MOOSRA; Multi objective optimisation on the basis of simple ratio analysis; Multiple criteria decision making; Ranking

Indexed keywords

MULTIOBJECTIVE OPTIMIZATION;

MCDM; MOORA; MOOSRA; MULTI-OBJECTIVE OPTIMISATION ON THE BASIS OF SIMPLE RATIO ANALYSIS; MULTIPLE CRITERIA DECISION MAKING; RANKING;

DECISION MAKING;

EID: 84859876374     PISSN: 17558077     EISSN: 17558085     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1504/IJADS.2012.046505     Document Type: Article

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