A simple approach to ranking a group of aggregated fuzzy utilities

IEEE Transactions on Systems, Man, and Cybernetics, Part B: Cybernetics

Volumn 27, Issue 1, 1997, Pages 26-35

  Chen, Chie Bein ^a   Klein, Cerry M ^a  

^a University of Missouri   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FUNCTIONS; INTEGRATION; MATHEMATICAL PROGRAMMING;

FUZZY ARITHMETIC OPERATIONS; FUZZY WEIGHTED AVERAGE (FWA) METHOD; RANKING PROCESS;

FUZZY SETS;

EID: 0031078133     PISSN: 10834419     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/3477.552183     Document Type: Article

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