A Compromise Ratio Method with an Application to Water Resources Management: An Intuitionistic Fuzzy Set

Water Resources Management

Volumn 27, Issue 7, 2013, Pages 2029-2051

  Hashemi, Hassan ^a   Bazargan, Jalal ^a   Mousavi, S Meysam ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ZANJAN   (Iran)

^b ISLAMIC AZAD UNIVERSITY   (Iran)

Author keywords

Compromise ratio method; Decision analysis; Fuzzy sets; Water resources management

Indexed keywords

DECISION THEORY; FUZZY SETS; ITERATIVE METHODS; SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT; WATER RESOURCES;

ATANASSOV'S INTUITIONISTIC FUZZY SETS; ENVIRONMENTAL RESOURCES; FUZZY DECISION MAKING; INTUITIONISTIC FUZZY SETS; LONG-TERM SUSTAINABILITY; MULTI-LEVEL ASSESSMENT; RATIO METHOD; WATER RESOURCES MANAGEMENT;

DECISION MAKING;

DECISION ANALYSIS; DECISION MAKING; FUZZY MATHEMATICS; MULTICRITERIA ANALYSIS; SUSTAINABILITY; WATER MANAGEMENT; WATER RESOURCE;

EID: 84876453297     PISSN: 09204741     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11269-013-0271-x     Document Type: Article

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