Groundwater quality assessment based on rough sets attribute reduction and TOPSIS method in a semi-arid area, China

Environmental Monitoring and Assessment

Volumn 184, Issue 8, 2012, Pages 4841-4854

  Li, Peiyue ^a   Wu, Jianhua ^a   Qian, Hui ^a  

^a CHANG'AN UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Groundwater; Multiple criteria decision making; Rough set; TOPSIS method; Water quality assessment

Indexed keywords

ASSESSMENT MODELS; ATTRIBUTE REDUCTION; CHEMICAL INDICES; COMPREHENSIVE ASSESSMENT; COUPLED MODELS; EVALUATION RESULTS; GROUND-WATER QUALITIES; GROUNDWATER QUALITY ASSESSMENT; HUMAN CONSUMPTION; MULTIPLE CRITERIA DECISION MAKING; MULTIPLE CRITERIA DECISION-MAKING PROBLEMS; NORTHWEST CHINA; ROUGH SET; SEMIARID AREA; TECHNIQUE FOR ORDER PREFERENCE BY SIMILARITY TO IDEAL SOLUTIONS; TOPSIS METHOD; WATER QUALITY ASSESSMENTS; WATER SAMPLES;

ARID REGIONS; DECISION MAKING; FLUORINE; GROUNDWATER; MANGANESE; WATER QUALITY;

ROUGH SET THEORY;

AMMONIA; DRINKING WATER; FLUORIDE ION; GROUND WATER; MANGANESE;

DECISION MAKING; DRINKING WATER; ENVIRONMENTAL ASSESSMENT; GROUNDWATER; SEMIARID REGION; WATER QUALITY; WATER SUPPLY;

ANALYTIC METHOD; ARTICLE; CALCULATION; CHEMICAL COMPOSITION; CHINA; CONTROLLED STUDY; DECISION MAKING; FLUID INTAKE; QUALITY CONTROL; ROUGH SET; SAFETY; SEMIARID CLIMATE; TECHNIQUE FOR ORDER PREFERENCE BY SIMILARITY TO IDEAL SOLUTION; WATER ANALYSIS; WATER QUALITY; WATER SAMPLING; WATER STANDARD;

CHINA; DECISION SUPPORT TECHNIQUES; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; GROUNDWATER; WATER POLLUTANTS, CHEMICAL; WATER POLLUTION, CHEMICAL; WATER QUALITY;

CHINA;

EID: 84864860510     PISSN: 01676369     EISSN: 15732959     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10661-011-2306-1     Document Type: Article

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