Evaluation and selection of medical tourism sites: A rough analytic hierarchy process based multi-attributive border approximation area comparison approach

Expert Systems

Volumn 35, Issue 1, 2018, Pages

  Roy, Jagannath ^a   Chatterjee, Kajal ^a   Bandyopadhyay, Abhirup ^a   Kar, Samarjit ^a  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (India)

Author keywords

medical tourism; multiple criteria decision making; R AHP; R MABAC; rough number

Indexed keywords

ANALYTIC HIERARCHY PROCESS; DECISION MAKING; UNCERTAINTY ANALYSIS;

MEDICAL TOURISM; MULTIPLE CRITERIA DECISION MAKING; R-AHP; R-MABAC; ROUGH NUMBERS;

QUALITY CONTROL;

EID: 85031679253     PISSN: 02664720     EISSN: 14680394     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/exsy.12232     Document Type: Article

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