PMID- 25151443
OWN - NLM
STAT- MEDLINE
DCOM- 20150612
LR  - 20191210
IS  - 1879-2456 (Electronic)
IS  - 0956-053X (Linking)
VI  - 34
IP  - 11
DP  - 2014 Nov
TI  - Application of interval 2-tuple linguistic MULTIMOORA method for health-care 
      waste treatment technology evaluation and selection.
PG  - 2355-64
LID - S0956-053X(14)00320-1 [pii]
LID - 10.1016/j.wasman.2014.07.016 [doi]
AB  - The management of health-care waste (HCW) is a major challenge for 
      municipalities, particularly in the cities of developing countries. Selection of 
      the best treatment technology for HCW can be viewed as a complicated 
      multi-criteria decision making (MCDM) problem which requires consideration of a 
      number of alternatives and conflicting evaluation criteria. Additionally, 
      decision makers often use different linguistic term sets to express their 
      assessments because of their different backgrounds and preferences, some of which 
      may be imprecise, uncertain and incomplete. In response, this paper proposes a 
      modified MULTIMOORA method based on interval 2-tuple linguistic variables (named 
      ITL-MULTIMOORA) for evaluating and selecting HCW treatment technologies. In 
      particular, both subjective and objective importance coefficients of criteria are 
      taken into consideration in the developed approach in order to conduct a more 
      effective analysis. Finally, an empirical case study in Shanghai, the most 
      crowded metropolis of China, is presented to demonstrate the proposed method, and 
      results show that the proposed ITL-MULTIMOORA can solve the HCW treatment 
      technology selection problem effectively under uncertain and incomplete 
      information environment.
CI  - Copyright (c) 2014 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.
FAU - Liu, Hu-Chen
AU  - Liu HC
AD  - School of Management, Shanghai University, Shanghai 200444, PR China; School of 
      Economics and Management, Tongji University, Shanghai 200092, PR China. 
      Electronic address: huchenliu@foxmail.com.
FAU - You, Jian-Xin
AU  - You JX
AD  - School of Management, Shanghai University, Shanghai 200444, PR China; School of 
      Economics and Management, Tongji University, Shanghai 200092, PR China.
FAU - Lu, Chao
AU  - Lu C
AD  - School of Management, Shanghai University, Shanghai 200444, PR China.
FAU - Shan, Meng-Meng
AU  - Shan MM
AD  - School of Management, Shanghai University, Shanghai 200444, PR China. Electronic 
      address: mmshan@shu.edu.cn.
LA  - eng
PT  - Evaluation Study
PT  - Journal Article
PT  - Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't
DEP - 20140820
PL  - United States
TA  - Waste Manag
JT  - Waste management (New York, N.Y.)
JID - 9884362
RN  - 0 (Medical Waste Disposal)
SB  - IM
MH  - China
MH  - Cities
MH  - *Decision Support Techniques
MH  - Humans
MH  - Linguistics
MH  - Medical Waste Disposal/instrumentation/*methods
MH  - *Models, Theoretical
OTO - NOTNLM
OT  - HCW treatment technology
OT  - Health-care waste management
OT  - Interval 2-tuple
OT  - MULTIMOORA method
EDAT- 2014/08/26 06:00
MHDA- 2015/06/13 06:00
CRDT- 2014/08/25 06:00
PHST- 2014/02/25 00:00 [received]
PHST- 2014/07/17 00:00 [revised]
PHST- 2014/07/22 00:00 [accepted]
PHST- 2014/08/25 06:00 [entrez]
PHST- 2014/08/26 06:00 [pubmed]
PHST- 2015/06/13 06:00 [medline]
AID - S0956-053X(14)00320-1 [pii]
AID - 10.1016/j.wasman.2014.07.016 [doi]
PST - ppublish
SO  - Waste Manag. 2014 Nov;34(11):2355-64. doi: 10.1016/j.wasman.2014.07.016. Epub 
      2014 Aug 20.