Prioritising alternatives for maintenance of water distribution networks: A group decision approach

Water SA

Volumn 38, Issue 4, 2012, Pages 555-564

  Trojan, Flavio ^a   Morais, Danielle Costa ^a  

^a FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF PERNAMBUCO   (Brazil)

Author keywords

Group decision; Maintenance; Multi criteria; Water networks

Indexed keywords

AGGREGATES; DECISION MAKING; LOSSES; WATER RESOURCES; WATER SUPPLY;

DECISION MAKERS; ECONOMIC LOSS; ELECTRE; EXISTING SYSTEMS; GROUP DECISION; GROUP DECISION-MAKING; GROUP MEMBERS; INDIVIDUAL PREFERENCE; MAINTENANCE COST; MULTI-CRITERIA; OBJECTIVE CRITERIA; SOFTWARE PROGRAM; WATER DISTRIBUTION NETWORKS; WATER LOSS; WATER NETWORKS; WATER SUPPLY SECTOR; WATER USE;

MAINTENANCE;

DECISION ANALYSIS; DECISION MAKING; ECONOMIC ANALYSIS; MAINTENANCE; MULTICRITERIA ANALYSIS; NUMERICAL MODEL; PRIORITIZATION; WATER RESOURCE; WATER SUPPLY; WATER USE;

EID: 84930477152     PISSN: 03784738     EISSN: 18167950     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.4314/wsa.v38i4.11     Document Type: Article

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