The prioritisation of provinces for public grants allocation by a decision-making methodology based on type-2 fuzzy sets

Urban Studies

Volumn 53, Issue 4, 2016, Pages 755-774

  Kiliç, Mesut ^a   Kaya, İhsan ^b  

^a Tokat Investment Support Office   (Turkey)

^b YILDIZ TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

Author keywords

AHP; city ranking; fuzzy sets; regional development; TOPSIS; type 2 fuzzy sets

Indexed keywords

DECISION MAKING; FUZZY MATHEMATICS; METHODOLOGY; PRIORITIZATION; PUBLIC GOODS; REGIONAL DEVELOPMENT; RESOURCE ALLOCATION; SOCIOECONOMIC STATUS; URBAN GROWTH; URBAN POLICY;

TURKEY;

EID: 84958073203     PISSN: 00420980     EISSN: 1360063X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0042098014566370     Document Type: Article

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