Fuzzy Credibility Relation Method for Multiple Criteria Decision-Making Problems

Information Sciences

Volumn 96, Issue 1-2, 1997, Pages 79-91

  Hsu, Hsi Mei ^a   Chen, Chen Tung ^b  

^a NATIONAL CHIAO TUNG UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^b SOUTHERN TAIWAN UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DECISION MAKING; FUZZY SETS; MATHEMATICAL TECHNIQUES; NUMERICAL ANALYSIS;

MULTIPLE CRITERIA;

ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE;

ANALYTICAL TECHNIQUE; DECISION MAKING PROCESS; FUZZY LOGIC;

EID: 0030623301     PISSN: 00200255     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/s0020-0255(96)00153-3     Document Type: Article

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