A general class of simple majority decision rules based on linguistic opinions

Information Sciences

Volumn 176, Issue 4, 2006, Pages 352-365

  García Lapresta, José Luis ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF VALLADOLID   (Spain)

Author keywords

Fuzzy numbers; Linguistic labels; Ordered monoids; Preferences; Simple majority

Indexed keywords

COMPUTATIONAL LINGUISTICS; FUZZY SETS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; NUMBER THEORY;

FUZZY NUMBERS; LINGUISTIC LABELS; ORDERED MONOIDS; PREFERENCES; SIMPLE MAJORITY;

DECISION THEORY;

EID: 27844460114     PISSN: 00200255     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ins.2005.07.004     Document Type: Conference Paper

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