A prioritisation index for blight intervention strategies in residential real estate

Journal of the Operational Research Society

Volumn 69, Issue 8, 2018, Pages 1269-1285

  Ferreira, Fernando A F ^a,b   Spahr, Ronald W ^b   Sunderman, Mark A ^b   Jalali, Marjan S ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY INSTITUTE OF LISBON   (Portugal)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MEMPHIS   (United States)

Author keywords

blight; cognitive mapping; Multiple criteria analysis; problem structuring; real estate

Indexed keywords

COGNITIVE SYSTEMS; DECISION THEORY; MAPPING; OPERATIONS RESEARCH;

BLIGHT; COGNITIVE MAPPING; MULTIPLE CRITERIA ANALYSIS; PROBLEM STRUCTURING; REAL ESTATE;

HOUSING;

EID: 85047031184     PISSN: 01605682     EISSN: 14769360     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/01605682.2017.1390535     Document Type: Article

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