A comparative study of multiple-criteria decision-making methods under stochastic inputs

Energies

Volumn 9, Issue 7, 2016, Pages

  Kolios, Athanasios ^a   Mytilinou, Varvara ^a   Lozano Minguez, Estivaliz ^b   Salonitis, Konstantinos ^a  

^a CRANFIELD UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITAT POLITÈCNICA DE VALÈNCIA   (Spain)

Author keywords

Analytical hierarchy process (AHP); Elimination et choix traduisant la realit (ELECTRE); Multi criteria decision methods; Preference ranking organization method for enrichment evaluation (PROMETHEE); Stochastic inputs; Support structures; Technique for the order of preference by similarity to the ideal solution (TOPSIS); Weighted product method (WPM); Weighted sum method (WSM); Wind turbine

Indexed keywords

GROUND SUPPORTS; STOCHASTIC SYSTEMS; WIND TURBINES;

ANALYTICAL HIERARCHY PROCESS; ELECTRE; IDEAL SOLUTIONS; MULTI-CRITERIA DECISION METHODS; PROMETHEE; STOCHASTIC INPUTS; SUPPORT STRUCTURES; WEIGHTED PRODUCTS; WEIGHTED SUM METHOD;

DECISION MAKING;

EID: 84984861585     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19961073     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3390/en9070566     Document Type: Article

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