Design of fuzzy synthetic evaluation model for air quality assessment

Environment Systems and Decisions

Volumn 34, Issue 3, 2014, Pages 456-469

  Gorai, A K ^a,b   Kanchan, ^a   Upadhyay, A ^c   Goyal, P ^c  

^a BIRLA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (India)

^b JACKSON STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c INDIAN INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY DELHI   (India)

Author keywords

Air quality assessment; Fuzzy synthetic evaluation; Taj Trapezium Zone

Indexed keywords

EID: 84939893527     PISSN: 21945403     EISSN: 21945411     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10669-014-9505-6     Document Type: Article

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