Selection of wastewater treatment alternative: Significance of choosing MADM method

Environmental Engineering and Management Journal

Volumn 14, Issue 5, 2015, Pages 1011-1020

  Kalbar, Pradip P ^a   Karmakar, Subhankar ^a   Asolekar, Shyam R ^a  

^a INDIAN INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY BOMBAY   (India)

Author keywords

Compromise programming; Multiple attribute decision making; Outranking methods; TOPSIS; Wastewater treatment

Indexed keywords

EID: 84944620483     PISSN: 15829596     EISSN: 18433707     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.30638/eemj.2015.111     Document Type: Article

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