A new approach for ranking fuzzy numbers by distance method

Fuzzy Sets and Systems

Volumn 95, Issue 3, 1998, Pages 307-317

  Cheng, Ching Hsue ^a  

^a DEPARTMENT OF PHYSICS   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

Centroid point; Coefficient of variation (CV); Distance index; Normal (non normal) fuzzy numbers; Ranking fuzzy numbers

Indexed keywords

EID: 0000597270     PISSN: 01650114     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0165-0114(96)00272-2     Document Type: Article

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