Multi-criteria evaluation of alternative-fuel vehicles via a hierarchical hesitant fuzzy linguistic model

Expert Systems with Applications

Volumn 42, Issue 5, 2015, Pages 2835-2848

  Yavuz, Mesut ^a   Oztaysi, Basar ^b   Cevik Onar, Sezi ^b   Kahraman, Cengiz ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ALABAMA   (United States)

^b ISTANBUL TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

Author keywords

Alternative fuel vehicles; Hesitant fuzzy sets; Hierarchy; Linguistic terms; Multi criteria decision making

Indexed keywords

ALTERNATIVE FUELS; DECISION MAKING; FLEET OPERATIONS; FUZZY SETS; HOME HEALTH CARE; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; VEHICLES;

FUEL VEHICLES; HESITANT FUZZY SETS; HIERARCHY; LINGUISTIC TERMS; MULTI-CRITERIA DECISION MAKING;

LINGUISTICS;

EID: 84917710703     PISSN: 09574174     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.eswa.2014.11.010     Document Type: Article

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