Linguistic decision analysis: Steps for solving decision problems under linguistic information

Fuzzy Sets and Systems

Volumn 115, Issue 1, 2000, Pages 67-82

  Herrera, F ^a   Herrera Viedma, E ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GRANADA   (Spain)

Author keywords

Linguistic aggregation; Linguistic choice functions; Linguistic modeling; Multi criteria decision making

Indexed keywords

EID: 0002781537     PISSN: 01650114     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0165-0114(99)00024-X     Document Type: Article

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