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The main aim of this study is to develop a multi-criteria decision making approach considering all aspects of the agricultural service center location problem (ASCLP). Initially a Delphi Fuzzy-AHP survey has been completed to extract the objectives and attributes of the ASCLP and their local weights. The main novel contribution of this paper is extracting and considering in a comprehensive manner the attributes and objectives for solving the problem of identifying: technical potential of candidate locations and demand and market location. By using the developed attributes, two scores (maxi-min and maxi-max) are computed for each candidate location and non-dominated solutions identified.
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Zangeneh, M., Nielsen, P., Akram, A., Keyhani, A. (2014). Agricultural Service Center Location Problem: Concept and a MCDM Solution Approach. In: Grabot, B., Vallespir, B., Gomes, S., Bouras, A., Kiritsis, D. (eds) Advances in Production Management Systems. Innovative and Knowledge-Based Production Management in a Global-Local World. APMS 2014. IFIP Advances in Information and Communication Technology, vol 439. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-662-44736-9_74
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