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the relative weights of the evaluation criteria, and the relative importance of
the roles of the decision-makers/stakeholders was also recognized as differ-
ent. All in all the developed method for sustainability ranking of alternative
bioethanol production pathways has the following advantages:
(1) The ambiguity and hesitations existing in human’s judgments can be
appropriately addressed.
(2) Multiple groups of decision-makers are allowed to participate in the
decision-making process.
(3) This is an object-oriented method which can determine the sustainabil-
ity sequence of the alternative bioethanol production pathways accord-
ing to the opinions and the preferences of the decision-makers/
stakeholders.

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