A taxonomy and review of the multiple criteria decision-making literature in chemical engineering

International Journal of Multicriteria Decision Making

Volumn 1, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 407-467

  Pirdashti, Mohsen ^a   Tavana, Madjid ^b   Hassim, Mimi Haryani ^c   Behzadian, Majid ^a   Karimi, I A ^d  

^a SHOMAL UNIVERSITY   (Iran)

^b LA SALLE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c AALTO UNIVERSITY   (Finland)

^d NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF SINGAPORE   (Singapore)

Author keywords

CE; Chemical engineering; Decision support system; MCDM; Multi objective optimisation; Multicriteria decision making

Indexed keywords

EID: 84880577402     PISSN: 2040106X     EISSN: 20401078     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1504/IJMCDM.2011.043556     Document Type: Article

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