Multi-criteria group decision making for evaluating the performance of e-waste recycling programs under uncertainty

Waste Management

Volumn 40, Issue , 2015, Pages 127-135

  Wibowo, Santoso ^a   Deng, Hepu ^b,c  

^a CENTRAL QUEENSLAND UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^b RMIT UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^c RENMIN UNIVERSITY OF CHINA   (China)

Author keywords

E waste recycling programs; Group decision making; Intuitionistic fuzzy numbers; Multi criteria analysis; Performance evaluation

Indexed keywords

DECISION SUPPORT SYSTEMS; ELECTRONIC WASTE; FUZZY RULES; RECYCLING; SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT; WASTES;

E-WASTE RECYCLING; GROUP DECISION MAKING; INTUITIONISTIC FUZZY NUMBER; MULTI CRITERIA ANALYSIS; PERFORMANCE EVALUATION;

DECISION MAKING;

DECISION MAKING; ELECTRONIC EQUIPMENT; MULTICRITERIA ANALYSIS; PERFORMANCE ASSESSMENT; RECYCLING; SUSTAINABILITY; UNCERTAINTY ANALYSIS; WASTE MANAGEMENT;

ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; CONSENSUS DEVELOPMENT; DECISION MAKING; DECISION SUPPORT SYSTEM; DELPHI STUDY; ELECTRONIC WASTE; ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT; FEEDBACK SYSTEM; FUZZY SYSTEM; HUMAN; INTERNAL CONSISTENCY; METAL RECOVERY; MOBILE PHONE; ORGANIZATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGRAM EVALUATION; PROGRAM FEASIBILITY; QUALITATIVE RESEARCH; RECYCLING; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR; SRI LANKA; COMPUTER PROGRAM; FUZZY LOGIC; GROUP PROCESS; PROCEDURES; STATISTICAL MODEL; UNCERTAINTY; WASTE MANAGEMENT;

ALGORITHMS; DECISION MAKING; DECISION SUPPORT TECHNIQUES; ELECTRONIC WASTE; FUZZY LOGIC; GROUP PROCESSES; HUMANS; LINEAR MODELS; RECYCLING; SOFTWARE; SRI LANKA; UNCERTAINTY; WASTE MANAGEMENT;

EID: 84928701882     PISSN: 0956053X     EISSN: 18792456     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.wasman.2015.02.035     Document Type: Article

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