Selection of robot for automated foundry operations using fuzzy multi-criteria decision making approaches

International Journal of Management Science and Engineering Management

Volumn 9, Issue 3, 2014, Pages 221-232

  Bairagi, Bipradas ^a   Dey, Balaram ^a   Sarkar, Bijan ^b   Sanyal, Subir ^b  

^a HALDIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (India)

^b JADAVPUR UNIVERSITY   (India)

Author keywords

COPRAS G; FAHP; FMCDM; FTOPSIS; FVIKOR

Indexed keywords

EID: 84930421096     PISSN: 17509653     EISSN: 17509661     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/17509653.2014.880076     Document Type: Article

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