Modeling funding allocation problems via AHP-fuzzy TOPSIS

International Journal of Innovative Computing, Information and Control

Volumn 8, Issue 5 A, 2012, Pages 3329-3340

  Ignatius, Joshua ^a   Mustafa, Adli ^a   Goh, Mark ^b,c  

^a SCHOOL OF PHYSICS   (Malaysia)

^b NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF SINGAPORE   (Singapore)

^c UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH AUSTRALIA   (Australia)

Author keywords

AHP; Decision analysis; Fuzzy TOPSIS; Group decision making; Linguistic modeling; Multiple criteria

Indexed keywords

AHP; FUZZY TOPSIS; GROUP-DECISION MAKING; LINGUISTIC MODELING; MULTIPLE CRITERIA;

DECISION MAKING; DECISION THEORY; LINGUISTICS;

HIERARCHICAL SYSTEMS;

EID: 84860796671     PISSN: 13494198     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Review

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