Analysis of Flood Risk Management Strategies Based on a Group Decision Making Process via Interval-Valued Intuitionistic Fuzzy Numbers

Water Resources Management

Volumn 30, Issue 6, 2016, Pages 1903-1921

  Azarnivand, Ali ^a   Malekian, Arash ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEHRAN   (Iran)

Author keywords

Aggregating technique; Flood management; Group decision making; Interval numbers; Strategic matrix

Indexed keywords

AGRICULTURE; FLOOD CONTROL; FLOODS; FUZZY RULES; FUZZY SETS; MATRIX ALGEBRA; PLANNING; RISK ASSESSMENT; RISK MANAGEMENT; SOIL CONSERVATION; SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT; WATER CONSERVATION; WATERSHEDS;

AGGREGATING TECHNIQUE; FLOOD MANAGEMENT; GROUP DECISION MAKING; GROUP DECISION MAKING PROCESS; INTERVAL NUMBER; INTERVAL-VALUED INTUITIONISTIC FUZZY NUMBER; MULTI-ATTRIBUTE GROUP DECISION MAKINGS (MAGDM); WATER AND SOIL CONSERVATIONS;

DECISION MAKING;

DECISION MAKING; FLOOD CONTROL; FUZZY MATHEMATICS; HAZARD MANAGEMENT; PRIORITIZATION; SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT;

EID: 84957963840     PISSN: 09204741     EISSN: 15731650     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11269-016-1259-0     Document Type: Article

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