A novel two-phase group decision making approach for construction project selection in a fuzzy environment

Applied Mathematical Modelling

Volumn 36, Issue 9, 2012, Pages 4197-4217

  Ebrahimnejad, S ^a   Mousavi, S M ^b   Tavakkoli Moghaddam, R ^b   Hashemi, H ^c   Vahdani, B ^b  

^a ISLAMIC AZAD UNIVERSITY   (Iran)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TEHRAN   (Iran)

^c UNIVERSITY OF ZANJAN   (Iran)

Author keywords

ANP; Construction project selection; Fuzzy sets; Group decision making; Uncertainty and risk; VIKOR

Indexed keywords

ANALYTIC NETWORK PROCESS; ANP; COMPUTATIONAL RESULTS; CONSTRUCTION PROJECTS; DECISION-MAKING PROBLEM; FUZZY ANP; FUZZY ENVIRONMENTS; FUZZY INFORMATION; GROUP DECISION MAKING; ILLUSTRATIVE EXAMPLES; MULTIPLE CRITERIA; RANKING METHODS; RISK ATTITUDE; VIKOR;

CONSTRUCTION INDUSTRY; FUZZY SETS;

DECISION MAKING;

EID: 84861333088     PISSN: 0307904X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.apm.2011.11.050     Document Type: Article

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