A fuzzy approach to urban ecotourism site selection based on an integrated Promethee III methodology

Journal of Multiple-Valued Logic and Soft Computing

Volumn 21, Issue 1-2, 2013, Pages 89-111

  Kaya, Ayşe Orbay ^a   Kaya, Tolga ^b   Kahraman, Cengiz ^b  

^a MIMAR SINAN UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

^b ISTANBUL TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

Author keywords

AHP; Fuzzy decision making; Multicriteria; PROMETHEE III; Urban ecotourism

Indexed keywords

AHP; FUZZY DECISION MAKING; MULTI-CRITERIA; PROMETHEE; URBAN ECO TOURISMS;

ECOLOGY; FUZZY SETS; SITE SELECTION;

URBAN GROWTH;

EID: 84883572766     PISSN: 15423980     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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