A state of the art literature review of VIKOR and its fuzzy extensions on applications

Applied Soft Computing - Tập 46 - Trang 60-89 - 2016
Muhammet Gül1, Erkan Çelik1, Nezir Aydın2, Alev Taşkın Gümüş2, Ali Fuat Güneri2
1Department of Industrial Engineering, Tunceli University, 62000 Tunceli, Turkey
2Department of Industrial Engineering, Yildiz Technical University, 34349 İstanbul, Turkey

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