Assessment of health-care waste disposal methods using a VIKOR-based fuzzy multi-criteria decision making method

Waste Management

Volumn 33, Issue 12, 2013, Pages 2744-2751

  Liu, Hu Chen ^a,b   Wu, Jing ^c   Li, Ping ^d,e  

^a HEFEI UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (China)

^b TOKYO INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Japan)

^c TONGJI UNIVERSITY   (China)

^d Shanghai Pudong New Area Zhoupu Hospital   (China)

^e Key Laboratory of Arrhythmias of Ministry of Education   (China)

Author keywords

Fuzzy sets; Health care waste management; OWA operator; VIKOR method

Indexed keywords

ALTERNATIVE SOLUTIONS; COMPUTATIONAL PROCEDURES; FUZZY MULTI-CRITERIA DECISION MAKINGS; MULTI-CRITERIA DECISION MAKING; MUNICIPAL AUTHORITIES; ORDERED WEIGHTED AVERAGING OPERATOR; OWA OPERATORS; VIKOR METHOD;

DEVELOPING COUNTRIES; FUZZY SETS; HEALTH; INCINERATION; WASTE DISPOSAL; WASTE INCINERATION; WASTE TREATMENT;

DECISION MAKING;

ASSESSMENT METHOD; DECISION MAKING; DEVELOPING WORLD; FUZZY MATHEMATICS; HEALTH CARE; MULTICRITERIA ANALYSIS; WASTE DISPOSAL;

ARTICLE; CHINA; DECISION MAKING; FUZZY SYSTEM; HOSPITAL WASTE; INCINERATION; LANDFILL; MATHEMATICAL COMPUTING; MICROWAVE RADIATION; MULTICRITERIA DECISION MAKING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; WASTE DISPOSAL;

CHINA; SHANGHAI;

FUZZY SETS; HEALTH-CARE WASTE MANAGEMENT; OWA OPERATOR; VIKOR METHOD;

DECISION SUPPORT TECHNIQUES; FUZZY LOGIC; MEDICAL WASTE; MEDICAL WASTE DISPOSAL;

EID: 84886058390     PISSN: 0956053X     EISSN: 18792456     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.wasman.2013.08.006     Document Type: Article

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