A group agreement-based approach for decision making in environmental issues

Environmental Modelling and Software

Volumn 36, Issue , 2012, Pages 99-110

  Vrana, Ivan ^a   Vaníček, Jiří ^a   Kovář, Pavel ^a   Brožek, Jiří ^a   Aly, Shady ^a  

^a CZECH UNIVERSITY OF LIFE SCIENCES PRAGUE   (Czech Republic)

Author keywords

Agreement; Averaging operator; Environmental decision making; Flood risk management; Fuzzy ambiguity; Multi expert decisions

Indexed keywords

AVERAGING OPERATORS; ENVIRONMENTAL DECISION MAKING; FLOOD RISK MANAGEMENT; FUZZY AMBIGUITY; MULTI-EXPERT DECISION;

CONTRACTS; DECISION MAKING; ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION; FLOOD CONTROL; NUMERICAL METHODS;

UNCERTAINTY ANALYSIS;

DECISION MAKING; ENTROPY; ENVIRONMENTAL ISSUE; ENVIRONMENTAL MODELING; FLOOD; FUZZY MATHEMATICS; OPTIMIZATION; RISK ASSESSMENT; SOFTWARE;

EID: 84861191926     PISSN: 13648152     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.envsoft.2011.12.007     Document Type: Article

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