Two new approaches for assessing the weights of fuzzy opinions in group decision analysis

Information Sciences

Volumn 176, Issue 23, 2006, Pages 3538-3555

  Wang, Ying Ming ^a,b   Parkan, Celik ^c  

^a FUZHOU UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b XIAMEN UNIVERSITY   (China)

^c LONG ISLAND UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Aggregation of fuzzy opinions; Defuzzification; Fuzzy group decision analysis; Fuzzy opinion

Indexed keywords

DISTANCE MEASUREMENT; FUZZY SETS; LEAST SQUARES APPROXIMATIONS; NUMERICAL METHODS; WEIGHING;

AGGREGATION OF FUZZY OPINIONS; DEFUZZIFICATION; FUZZY GROUP DECISION ANALYSIS; FUZZY OPINION;

DECISION THEORY;

EID: 33748150474     PISSN: 00200255     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ins.2005.12.011     Document Type: Article

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