Combining fuzzy AHP with MDS in identifying the preference similarity of alternatives

Applied Soft Computing Journal

Volumn 8, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 110-117

  Chen, Mei Fang ^a   Tzeng, Gwo Hshiung ^b,c   Ding, Cherng G ^c  

^a TATUNG UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^b KAINAN UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^c NATIONAL CHIAO TUNG UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

Expatriate assignment; Fuzzy analytic hierarchy process (FAHP); Fuzzy multi criteria decision making (FMCDM); Multidimensional scaling (MDS)

Indexed keywords

DECISION MAKING; HIERARCHICAL SYSTEMS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; NUMERICAL METHODS; SCALING LAWS;

DIMENSION REDUCTION TECHNIQUE; EXPATRIATE ASSIGNMENT; FUZZY ANALYTIC HIERARCHY PROCESS; MULTIDIMENSIONAL SCALING; VISUAL DIMENSIONALITY;

FUZZY CLUSTERING;

EID: 34548473095     PISSN: 15684946     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.asoc.2006.11.007     Document Type: Article

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