Optimizing selection of technologies in a multiple stage, multiple objective wastewater treatment system

Journal of Multi-Criteria Decision Analysis

Volumn 18, Issue 1-2, 2011, Pages 115-142

  Tarun, Prashant K ^a   Chen, Victoria C P ^b   Corley, H W ^b   Jiang, F ^c  

^a MISSOURI WESTERN STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b University of Texas at Arlington   (United States)

^c Georgia Department of Natural Resources   (United States)

Author keywords

Analytic hierarchy process; Multiple objective decisions; Pareto scalarization; Stochastic dynamic programming; Wastewater treatment model

Indexed keywords

EID: 84904874052     PISSN: 10579214     EISSN: 10991360     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/mcda.475     Document Type: Article

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