A multi-criteria approach to sort and rank policies based on Delphi qualitative assessments and ELECTRE TRI: The case of smart grids in Brazil

Omega (United Kingdom)

Volumn 76, Issue , 2018, Pages 100-111

  Dias, Luis C ^a,b   Antunes, Carlos Henggeler ^a,c   Dantas, Guilherme ^d   de Castro, Nivalde ^d   Zamboni, Lucca ^e  

^a INESC COIMBRA   (Portugal)

^b UNIVERSITY OF COIMBRA   (Portugal)

^c UNIVERSITY OF COIMBRA   (Portugal)

^d FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF RIO DE JANEIRO   (Brazil)

^e Department of Engineering and Technological Development   (Brazil)

Author keywords

Delphi; Energy; MCDA; Multicriteria; Outranking; Partial information; Policy analysis

Indexed keywords

DECISION MAKING; STOCHASTIC SYSTEMS;

DELPHI; ELECTRE TRI; ENERGY; MCDA; MULTI-CRITERIA; OUTRANKING; PARTIAL INFORMATION; POLICY ANALYSIS; QUALITATIVE ASSESSMENTS; SMART GRID;

SMART POWER GRIDS;

BRAZIL; DELPHI STUDY; ELECTRICITY; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; STOCHASTIC MODEL;

EID: 85019591899     PISSN: 03050483     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.omega.2017.04.004     Document Type: Article

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