Sustainability assessment of solar technologies based on linguistic information

Green Energy and Technology

Volumn 129, Issue , 2013, Pages 3-25

  Cavallaro, Fausto ^a   Ciraolo, Luigi ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MOLISE   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MESSINA   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DECISION MAKING; FUZZY SETS; LINGUISTICS; SOLAR ENERGY;

DECISION MAKING PROCESS; LINGUISTIC EXPRESSIONS; LINGUISTIC INFORMATION; LINGUISTIC VARIABLE; MULTI-CRITERIA METHOD; QUALITATIVE INFORMATION; SOLAR ENERGY TECHNOLOGIES; SUSTAINABILITY ASSESSMENT;

FUZZY SET THEORY;

EID: 84892511884     PISSN: 18653529     EISSN: 18653537     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/978-1-4471-5143-2_1     Document Type: Article

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