Decision support for assessing demand side management programmes

International Journal of Multicriteria Decision Making

Volumn 1, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 155-176

  Papadopoulou, Alexandra G ^a   Karakosta, Charikleia ^a   Askounis, Dimitris ^a  

^a NATIONAL TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF ATHENS NTUA   (Greece)

Author keywords

Decision support; Demand side management; DSM; Linguistic variables; Multiple criteria analysis; Sustainability

Indexed keywords

EID: 84870829120     PISSN: 2040106X     EISSN: 20401078     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1504/IJMCDM.2011.039585     Document Type: Article

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