Decision making in machine tool selection: An integrated approach with swara and copras-g methods;Sprendimo priėmimas pasirenkant mechanines stakles: Jungtinis SWARA ir COPRAS-G metodas

Engineering Economics

Volumn 24, Issue 1, 2013, Pages 5-17

  Zolfani, Sarfaraz Hashemkhani ^a,b,c   Zavadskas, Edmundas Kazimieras ^a  

^a VILNIUS GEDIMINAS TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY   (Lithuania)

^b SHOMAL UNIVERSITY   (Iran)

^c AMIRKABIR UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Iran)

Author keywords

Complex PRoportional ASsessment with Grey relations (COPRAS G); Machine tool selection problem; Multi attribute decision making; Step wise weight assessment ratio analysis (SWARA)

Indexed keywords

EID: 84880883985     PISSN: 13922785     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5755/j01.ee.24.l.2822     Document Type: Article

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