PMID- 27354012
OWN - NLM
STAT- MEDLINE
DCOM- 20170413
LR  - 20181202
IS  - 1096-3669 (Electronic)
VI  - 34
IP  - 9
DP  - 2016 Sep
TI  - Using multi-criteria decision making for selection of the optimal strategy for 
      municipal solid waste management.
PG  - 884-95
LID - 10.1177/0734242X16654753 [doi]
AB  - Multi-criteria decision making (MCDM) is a relatively new tool for decision 
      makers who deal with numerous and often contradictory factors during their 
      decision making process. This paper presents a procedure to choose the optimal 
      municipal solid waste (MSW) management system for the area of the city of 
      Kragujevac (Republic of Serbia) based on the MCDM method. Two methods of multiple 
      attribute decision making, i.e. SAW (simple additive weighting method) and TOPSIS 
      (technique for order preference by similarity to ideal solution), respectively, 
      were used to compare the proposed waste management strategies (WMS). Each of the 
      created strategies was simulated using the software package IWM2. Total values 
      for eight chosen parameters were calculated for all the strategies. Contribution 
      of each of the six waste treatment options was valorized. The SAW analysis was 
      used to obtain the sum characteristics for all the waste management treatment 
      strategies and they were ranked accordingly. The TOPSIS method was used to 
      calculate the relative closeness factors to the ideal solution for all the 
      alternatives. Then, the proposed strategies were ranked in form of tables and 
      diagrams obtained based on both MCDM methods. As shown in this paper, the results 
      were in good agreement, which additionally confirmed and facilitated the choice 
      of the optimal MSW management strategy.
CI  - (c) The Author(s) 2016.
FAU - Jovanovic, Sasa
AU  - Jovanovic S
AD  - University of Kragujevac, Faculty of Engineering, Sestre Janjic 6, 34000 
      Kragujevac, Serbia.
FAU - Savic, Slobodan
AU  - Savic S
AD  - University of Kragujevac, Faculty of Engineering, Sestre Janjic 6, 34000 
      Kragujevac, Serbia ssavic@kg.ac.rs.
FAU - Jovicic, Nebojsa
AU  - Jovicic N
AD  - University of Kragujevac, Faculty of Engineering, Sestre Janjic 6, 34000 
      Kragujevac, Serbia.
FAU - Boskovic, Goran
AU  - Boskovic G
AD  - University of Kragujevac, Faculty of Engineering, Sestre Janjic 6, 34000 
      Kragujevac, Serbia.
FAU - Djordjevic, Zorica
AU  - Djordjevic Z
AD  - University of Kragujevac, Faculty of Engineering, Sestre Janjic 6, 34000 
      Kragujevac, Serbia.
LA  - eng
PT  - Journal Article
DEP - 20160627
PL  - England
TA  - Waste Manag Res
JT  - Waste management & research : the journal of the International Solid Wastes and 
      Public Cleansing Association, ISWA
JID - 9881064
RN  - 0 (Solid Waste)
SB  - IM
MH  - Cities
MH  - *Decision Making
MH  - *Decision Support Techniques
MH  - Refuse Disposal
MH  - Serbia
MH  - Solid Waste/*analysis
MH  - Waste Management/*methods
OTO - NOTNLM
OT  - MCDM
OT  - SAW
OT  - TOPSIS
OT  - choice of optimal management system
OT  - municipal solid waste management
EDAT- 2016/06/30 06:00
MHDA- 2017/04/14 06:00
CRDT- 2016/06/30 06:00
PHST- 2016/06/30 06:00 [entrez]
PHST- 2016/06/30 06:00 [pubmed]
PHST- 2017/04/14 06:00 [medline]
AID - 0734242X16654753 [pii]
AID - 10.1177/0734242X16654753 [doi]
PST - ppublish
SO  - Waste Manag Res. 2016 Sep;34(9):884-95. doi: 10.1177/0734242X16654753. Epub 2016 
      Jun 27.