A multi-criteria group decision-making approach for facility location selection using PROMETHEE under a fuzzy environment

Lecture Notes in Business Information Processing

Volumn 218, Issue , 2015, Pages 145-156

  Tavakkoli Moghaddam, Reza ^a   Sotoudeh Anvari, Alireza ^b   Siadat, Ali ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEHRAN   (Iran)

^b ISLAMIC AZAD UNIVERSITY   (Iran)

^c Paul Verlaine University of Metz   (France)

Author keywords

Facility location selection; Fuzzy set theory; MCDM; PROMETHEE

Indexed keywords

DECISION MAKING; FUZZY SETS; LOCATION;

FACILITY LOCATION SELECTION; FACILITY LOCATIONS; MCDM; MULTI CRITERIA GROUP DECISION MAKING; MULTI-CRITERIA DECISION MAKING; PROMETHEE; REAL WORLD SITUATIONS; REAL-LIFE INFORMATION;

FUZZY SET THEORY;

EID: 84937429829     PISSN: 18651348     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-319-19515-5_12     Document Type: Conference Paper

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