A survey of credibility theory

Fuzzy Optimization and Decision Making

Volumn 5, Issue 4, 2006, Pages 387-408

  Liu, Baoding ^a  

^a TSINGHUA UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Conditional credibility; Credibility measure; Credibility theory; Fuzzy random variable; Fuzzy variable; Random fuzzy variable

Indexed keywords

DECISION MAKING; ENTROPY; FUNCTIONAL ASSESSMENT; INVERSE PROBLEMS; OPTIMIZATION; THEOREM PROVING;

CREDIBILITY EXTENSION THEOREM; CREDIBILITY THEORY; FUZZY VARIABLE; MEMBERSHIP FUNCTION;

FUZZY SETS;

EID: 33749021072     PISSN: 15684539     EISSN: 15732908     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10700-006-0016-x     Document Type: Review

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