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Sustainability Performance Evaluation of Groundwater Remediation Technologies

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Abstract

This paper presents a multicriteria group decision making method for evaluating the sustainability performance of groundwater remediation technologies. Interval-valued based intuitionistic fuzzy numbers are used to deal with the inherent vagueness and imprecision of the performance evaluation process. An efficient algorithm is developed for producing a closeness coefficient for determining the sustainability performance of the most suitable groundwater remediation technology alternative across all evaluation criteria. An example is presented for demonstrating the applicability of the method.

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Metadata
Title
Sustainability Performance Evaluation of Groundwater Remediation Technologies
Authors
Santoso Wibowo
Srimannarayana Grandhi
Copyright Year
2018
DOI
https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-73450-7_74

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