A prioritized information fusion method for handling fuzzy decision-making problems

Applied Intelligence

Volumn 22, Issue 3, 2005, Pages 219-232

  Chen, Shi Jay ^a   Chen, Shyi Ming ^a  

^a NATIONAL TAIWAN UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

Generalized fuzzy numbers; Information filtering; Prioritized information fusion algorithm; Prioritized operator; Similarity measures

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE; DECISION MAKING; INFORMATION ANALYSIS; INFORMATION RETRIEVAL; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; PROBLEM SOLVING;

GENERALIZED FUZZY NUMBERS; INFORMATION FILTERING; PRIORITIZED INFORMATION FUSION ALGORITHM; PRIORITIZED OPERATOR; SIMILARITY MEASURES;

FUZZY SETS;

EID: 17844370295     PISSN: 0924669X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10791-005-6620-5     Document Type: Article

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