A fuzzy clustering methodology for linguistic opinions in group decision making

Applied Soft Computing Journal

Volumn 7, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 858-869

  Chakraborty, Chandan ^a   Chakraborty, Debjani ^a  

^a INDIAN INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (India)

Author keywords

Fuzzy clustering technique; Fuzzy distance; Fuzzy number; Linguistic opinion; OWA operator

Indexed keywords

DECISION MAKING; FLIGHT SIMULATORS; LINGUISTICS; MATHEMATICAL OPERATORS; PROBLEM SOLVING;

FUZZY CLUSTERING TECHNIQUE; FUZZY DISTANCE; FUZZY NUMBER; LINGUISTIC OPINION; ORDERED WEIGHTED AVERAGE (OWA) OPERATORS;

FUZZY LOGIC;

EID: 34047256430     PISSN: 15684946     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.asoc.2006.02.006     Document Type: Article

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