Multicriteria Green Supplier Segmentation

IEEE Transactions on Engineering Management

Volumn 64, Issue 4, 2017, Pages 515-528

  Bai, Chunguang ^a   Rezaei, Jafar ^b   Sarkis, Joseph ^c  

^a DONGBEI UNIVERSITY OF FINANCE AND ECONOMICS   (China)

^b DELFT UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Netherlands)

^c WORCESTER POLYTECHNIC INSTITUTE   (United States)

Author keywords

Fuzzy C means (FCM); green; multiple criteria decision making (MCDM); rough set; supplier segmentation; VlseKriterijumska Optimizacija I Kompromisno Resenje (VIKOR)

Indexed keywords

BICYCLES; DECISION MAKING; FUZZY SYSTEMS; INDUSTRY; SUPPLY CHAIN MANAGEMENT;

FUZZY C MEAN; GREEN; GREEN PRODUCTS; MULTIPLE CRITERIA DECISION MAKING; SUPPLIER SEGMENTATION; VLSEKRITERIJUMSKA OPTIMIZACIJA I KOMPROMISNO RESENJE (VIKOR);

ROUGH SET THEORY;

EID: 85029183443     PISSN: 00189391     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TEM.2017.2723639     Document Type: Article

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