An AHP-topsis integrated model for selecting the most appropriate tomography equipment

International Journal of Information Technology and Decision Making

Volumn 15, Issue 4, 2016, Pages 861-885

  Barrios, Miguel Angel Ortiz ^a   De Felice, Fabio ^b   Negrete, Kevin Parra ^a   Romero, Brandon Aleman ^a   Arenas, Adriana Yaruro ^a   Petrillo, Antonella ^c  

^a UNIVERSIDAD DE LA COSTA   (Colombia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CASSINO AND SOUTHERN LAZIO   (Italy)

^c UNIVERSITY OF NAPLES PARTHENOPE   (Italy)

Author keywords

Analytic hierarchy process (AHP); medical applications; multi criteria decision making (MCDM); technique for order of preference by similarity to ideal solution (TOPSIS); tomography

Indexed keywords

EID: 84978511706     PISSN: 02196220     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1142/S021962201640006X     Document Type: Article

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