Nonlinear information aggregation via evidential reasoning in multiattribute decision analysis under uncertainty

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

Volumn 32, Issue 3, 2002, Pages 376-393

  Yang, Jian Bo ^a   Xu, Dong Ling ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MANCHESTER   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Assessment; Evidential reasoning (ER); Multiple attribute decision analysis under uncertainty; Nonlinear information aggregation; Operation research artificial intelligence (OR AI) approach

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE; CYBERNETICS; DECISION MAKING; ENGINES; NUMERICAL ANALYSIS; OPERATIONS RESEARCH; QUALITY CONTROL; RELIABILITY; SHIPS;

EVIDENTIAL REASONING; MULTIATTRIBUTE DECISION ANALYSIS; NONLINEAR INFORMATION AGGREGATION;

DECISION THEORY;

EID: 0036589584     PISSN: 10834427     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TSMCA.2002.802809     Document Type: Article

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