Robustness of MULTIMOORA: A method for multi-objective optimization

Informatica

Volumn 23, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 1-25

  Brauers, Willem Karel M ^a   Zavadskas, Edmundas Kazimieras ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ANTWERP   (Belgium)

^b VILNIUS GEDIMINAS TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY   (Lithuania)

Author keywords

full multiplicative form; MOORA; multi objective optimization; MULTIMOORA; ratio system; reference point method; robustness

Indexed keywords

EID: 84860131052     PISSN: 08684952     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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