A fuzzy goal programming model to analyze energy, environmental and sustainability goals of the United Arab Emirates

Annals of Operations Research

Volumn 251, Issue 1-2, 2017, Pages 255-270

  Jayaraman, Raja ^a   Liuzzi, Danilo ^a   Colapinto, Cinzia ^b   Malik, Tufail ^a  

^a KHALIFA UNIVERSITY   (United Arab Emirates)

^b CA' FOSCARI UNIVERSITY OF VENICE   (Italy)

Author keywords

Energy; Environment; Fuzzy goal programming; Membership functions; Multi criteria decision making

Indexed keywords

EID: 85033425172     PISSN: 02545330     EISSN: 15729338     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10479-015-1825-5     Document Type: Article

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