Regional earthquake vulnerability assessment using a combination of MCDM methods

Annals of Operations Research

Volumn 234, Issue 1, 2015, Pages 95-110

  Peng, Yi ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ELECTRONIC SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY OF CHINA   (China)

Author keywords

Multiple criteria decision making (MCDM); Reginal earthquake vulnerability assessment; Spearman s rank correlation coefficient

Indexed keywords

EID: 84943357268     PISSN: 02545330     EISSN: 15729338     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10479-012-1253-8     Document Type: Article

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