A linguistic modeling of consensus in group decision making based on OWA operators

IEEE Transactions on Systems, Man, and Cybernetics Part A:Systems and Humans.

Volumn 27, Issue 1, 1997, Pages 126-132

  Bordogna, Gloria ^a   Fedrizzi, Mario ^b   Pasi, Gabriella ^a  

^a CNR   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TRENTO   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DECISION SUPPORT SYSTEMS; DECISION THEORY; FUZZY SETS; LINGUISTICS; MATHEMATICAL OPERATORS; PROBLEM SOLVING;

ORDERED WEIGHTED AVERAGE (OWA) OPERATORS;

DECISION MAKING;

EID: 0030826844     PISSN: 10834427     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/3468.553232     Document Type: Article

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