Multi-criteria decision analyses. Viewing MCDA in terms of both process and aggregation methods: Some thoughts, motivated by the paper of Huang, Keisler and Linkov

Science of the Total Environment

Volumn 425, Issue , 2012, Pages 293-295

  Bruggemann, Rainer ^a   Carlsen, Lars ^b,c  

^a LEIBNIZ INSTITUTE OF FRESHWATER ECOLOGY AND INLAND FISHERIES   (Germany)

^b Awareness Center Roskilde   (Denmark)

^c KAZAKH BRITISH TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY   (Kazakhstan)

Author keywords

Hasse diagram technique (HDT); Multi Criteria Decision Analysis (MCDA); Partial order ranking; Partially ordered sets

Indexed keywords

AGGREGATION METHODS; GENERAL APPLICATIONS; HASSE DIAGRAMS; INDICATOR VALUES; KEISLER; MULTI-CRITERIA DECISION ANALYSIS; PARTIAL ORDER; PARTIALLY ORDERED SET; RANKING PROCEDURES;

POLLUTION;

ENVIRONMENTAL ENGINEERING;

GROUND WATER; PESTICIDE;

AGGREGATION; DECISION ANALYSIS; MULTICRITERIA ANALYSIS;

ANALYTIC METHOD; ARTICLE; BIOACCUMULATION; ECOTOXICITY; MULTI CRITERIA DECISION ANALYSIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROCESS OPTIMIZATION; PUBLIC HEALTH; SOLUBILITY; VAPOR PRESSURE; WATER MANAGEMENT;

DECISION SUPPORT TECHNIQUES; ECOLOGY;

EID: 84859963079     PISSN: 00489697     EISSN: 18791026     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.scitotenv.2012.02.062     Document Type: Article

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