Reliability, validity, and imprecision in fuzzy multicriteria decision-making

IEEE Transactions on Systems, Man and Cybernetics Part C: Applications and Reviews

Volumn 32, Issue 3, 2002, Pages 190-202

  Boucher, Thomas O ^a   Gogus, Ozerk ^b  

^a DEPARTMENT OF INDUSTRIAL AND SYSTEMS ENGINEERING   (United States)

^b AT AND T LABS RESEARCH   (United States)

Author keywords

Decision making; Fuzzy logic; Knowledge acquisition; Measurement theory

Indexed keywords

DECISION MAKING; KNOWLEDGE ACQUISITION; LINGUISTICS; MANAGEMENT; RELIABILITY;

FUZZY MULTICRITERIA DECISION-MAKING;

FUZZY SETS;

EID: 0036704622     PISSN: 10946977     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TSMCC.2002.804447     Document Type: Article

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