Computer-supported collaborative argumentation and fuzzy similarity measures in multiple criteria decision making

Computers and Operations Research

Volumn 27, Issue 7-8, 2000, Pages 653-671

  Karacapilidis, Nikos ^a   Pappis, Costas ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CYPRUS   (Cyprus)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PIRAEUS   (Greece)

Author keywords

Argumentation; Computer supported cooperative work; Fuzzy similarity measures; Multiple criteria decision making

Indexed keywords

APPROXIMATION THEORY; COMPUTER SCIENCE; DECISION SUPPORT SYSTEMS; FUZZY SETS; GRAPH THEORY; INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY; KNOWLEDGE ACQUISITION; KNOWLEDGE REPRESENTATION; PROBLEM SOLVING; WORLD WIDE WEB;

FUZZY SIMILARITY MEASURES; MULTIPLE CRITERIA DECISION MAKING;

COMPUTER SUPPORTED COOPERATIVE WORK;

DECISION MAKING; FUZZY MATHEMATICS;

EID: 0034011694     PISSN: 03050548     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0305-0548(99)00111-2     Document Type: Article

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