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In this paper, we propose an approach for evaluating remediation alternatives at the Zapadnoe uranium mill tailings site in a group decision-making context. The approach relies on both interval values and a linguistic term scale to valuate the alternative impacts and ordinal information about the relative importance of criteria. Monte Carlo simulation techniques are used to exploit imprecision to compute a fuzzy dominance matrix for each DM, taking into account the corresponding ordinal information about weights. Then a fuzzy dominance measuring method is used to derive the corresponding rankings of remediation alternatives. Finally, they are aggregated taking into account their relative importance to reach a consensus ranking.
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The paper was supported by the Spanish Ministry of Economy and Competitiveness MTM2014-56949-C3-2-R.
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Jiménez-Martín, A., Salas, H., Pérez-Sánchez, D., Mateos, A. (2017). Fuzzy Group Decision-Making for the Remediation of Uranium Mill Tailings. In: Schoop, M., Kilgour, D. (eds) Group Decision and Negotiation. A Socio-Technical Perspective. GDN 2017. Lecture Notes in Business Information Processing, vol 293. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-63546-0_5
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