Optimum route of the south transcontinental gas pipeline in SE Europe using AHP

Journal of Multi-Criteria Decision Analysis

Volumn 14, Issue 1-3, 2006, Pages 77-88

  Thomaidis, Fotios ^a   Mavrakis, Dimitrios ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ATHENS   (Greece)

Author keywords

Analytic hierarchy process; Pipeline routing; SE europe gas markets

Indexed keywords

EID: 85015707036     PISSN: 10579214     EISSN: 10991360     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/mcda.402     Document Type: Article

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