Green supply chain technology: A comprehensive evaluation and justification multiattribute decision modeling approach

Studies in Fuzziness and Soft Computing

Volumn 313, Issue , 2014, Pages 655-679

  Bai, Chunguang ^a   Sarkis, Joseph ^b  

^a DONGBEI UNIVERSITY OF FINANCE AND ECONOMICS   (China)

^b WORCESTER POLYTECHNIC INSTITUTE   (United States)

Author keywords

Fuzzy number; Green supply chain technology; Grey number; TOPSIS

Indexed keywords

EID: 84958552219     PISSN: 14349922     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-642-53939-8_28     Document Type: Article

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