Sustainable supply chain management using approximate fuzzy DEMATEL method

Resources, Conservation and Recycling

Volumn 128, Issue , 2018, Pages 134-142

  Lin, Kuo Ping ^a   Tseng, Ming Lang ^a   Pai, Ping Feng ^b  

^a LUNGHWA UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Taiwan)

^b NATIONAL CHI NAN UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

Approximate fuzzy arithmetic; Fuzzy cause and effect relationships; Fuzzy DEMATEL

Indexed keywords

DECISION MAKING; FUZZY SET THEORY; FUZZY SETS; SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT;

APPROXIMATE FUZZY ARITHMETIC; CAUSE-AND-EFFECT RELATIONSHIPS; DEMATEL; FUZZY ARITHMETICS; FUZZY CAUSE AND EFFECT RELATIONSHIP; FUZZY DECISION MAKING; FUZZY DEMATEL; INFLUENTIAL FACTORS; SUSTAINABLE SUPPLY CHAINS; UNCERTAIN ENVIRONMENTS;

SUPPLY CHAIN MANAGEMENT;

ACCURACY ASSESSMENT; DECISION MAKING; DECISION SUPPORT SYSTEM; FUZZY MATHEMATICS; SUPPLY CHAIN MANAGEMENT; SUSTAINABILITY;

ARITHMETIC; DECISION MAKING; HUMAN;

EID: 85034053389     PISSN: 09213449     EISSN: 18790658     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.resconrec.2016.11.017     Document Type: Article

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