A novel spherical fuzzy AHP-integrated spherical WASPAS methodology for petrol station location selection problem: a

Ertugrul Ayyildiz1, Alev Taskin Gumus2

  • 1Department of Industrial Engineering, Yildiz Technical University, Istanbul, Turkey. eayildiz@yildiz.edu.tr.

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