An evidential DEMATEL method to identify critical success factors in emergency management

Applied Soft Computing Journal

Volumn 22, Issue , 2014, Pages 504-510

  Li, Ya ^a   Hu, Yong ^b   Zhang, Xiaoge ^a   Deng, Yong ^a,c   Mahadevan, Sankaran ^c  

^a SOUTHWEST UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b GUANGDONG UNIVERSITY OF FOREIGN STUDIES   (China)

^c VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Critical success factors (CSF); DEMATEL; Dempster Shafer theory; Emergency management

Indexed keywords

CIVIL DEFENSE; DECISION THEORY; FUZZY SETS; PROBABILISTIC LOGICS; RISK MANAGEMENT;

BASIC PROBABILITY ASSIGNMENT; CRITICAL SUCCESS FACTOR; DEMATEL; DEMPSTER-SHAFER THEORY; EFFECTIVENESS AND EFFICIENCIES; EMERGENCY MANAGEMENT; INTUITIONISTIC FUZZY NUMBER; NATURAL DISASTERS;

DISASTERS;

EID: 84903704284     PISSN: 15684946     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.asoc.2014.03.042     Document Type: Article

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