Comparative evaluation of Indian technical institutions using fuzzy AHP and MOORA

International Journal of Multicriteria Decision Making

Volumn 2, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 74-93

  Das, Manik Chandra ^a   Sarkar, Bijan ^b   Ray, Siddhartha ^c  

^a MCKV INSTITUTE OF ENGINEERING   (India)

^b JADAVPUR UNIVERSITY   (India)

^c NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF TECHNICAL TEACHERS TRAINING AND RESEARCH   (India)

Author keywords

FAHP; FMCDM; Fuzzy analytic hierarchy process; Fuzzy multi criteria decision making; India; Indian technical institutions; MOORA; Multi objective optimisation on the basis of ratio analysis; Ranking

Indexed keywords

EID: 84893055058     PISSN: 2040106X     EISSN: 20401078     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1504/IJMCDM.2012.045084     Document Type: Article

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