Evaluating military training aircrafts through the combination of multi-criteria decision making processes with fuzzy logic. A case study in the Spanish Air Force Academy

Aerospace Science and Technology

Volumn 42, Issue , 2015, Pages 58-65

  Sanchez Lozano J M ^a   Serna, J ^a   Dolon Payan A ^a  

^a TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF CARTAGENA   (Spain)

Author keywords

AHPTOPSIS; Fuzzy logic; Linguistic labels; Multi criteria decision making; Training aircraft

Indexed keywords

AIRCRAFT; ANALYTIC HIERARCHY PROCESS; DECISION MAKING; HUMAN COMPUTER INTERACTION; MILITARY AVIATION; PERSONNEL TRAINING; PROBLEM SOLVING; SURVEYS; TRAINING AIRCRAFT;

AHPTOPSIS; ANALYTIC HIERARCHY PROCESS (AHP); EXTRACT INFORMATIONS; FLIGHT INSTRUCTORS; LINGUISTIC LABELS; MULTI CRITERIA DECISION MAKING; QUALITATIVE CRITERIA; TECHNIQUE FOR ORDER PREFERENCE BY SIMILARITY TO IDEAL SOLUTIONS;

FUZZY LOGIC;

EID: 84921823239     PISSN: 12709638     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ast.2014.12.028     Document Type: Article

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