Evaluating emergency response solutions for sustainable community development by using fuzzy multi-criteria group decision making approaches: IVDHF-TOPSIS and IVDHF-VIKOR

Sustainability (Switzerland)

Volumn 8, Issue 4, 2016, Pages

  Zhang, Junling ^a,b   Hegde, Gajanan G ^b   Shang, Jennifer ^b   Qi, Xiaowen ^b,c  

^a ZHEJIANG NORMAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH   (United States)

^c ZHEJIANG UNIVERSITY OF FINANCE AND ECONOMICS   (China)

Author keywords

Group decision making; Interval valued dual hesitant fuzzy set; Multi criteria decision making; TOPSIS; VIKOR

Indexed keywords

COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT; DECISION MAKING; FUZZY MATHEMATICS; HAZARD; INFORMATION SYSTEM; MULTICRITERIA ANALYSIS; SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT;

EID: 84965057199     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20711050     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3390/su8040291     Document Type: Article

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