A DS-AHP approach for multi-attribute decision making problem with incomplete information

Expert Systems with Applications

Volumn 34, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 2221-2227

  Hua, Zhongsheng ^a   Gong, Bengang ^a   Xu, Xiaoyan ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY OF CHINA   (China)

Author keywords

Analytic hierarchy process; Decision matrix; Dempster Shafer theory; Incomplete information; Multi attribute decision making

Indexed keywords

DECISION MAKING; INFORMATION ANALYSIS; NUMERICAL METHODS; PROBLEM SOLVING;

DECISION MATRIX; DEMPSTER-SHAFER THEORY; FOCAL ELEMENTS; INCOMPLETE INFORMATION; MULTI-ATTRIBUTE DECISION MAKING;

ANALYTIC HIERARCHY PROCESS;

EID: 37349127497     PISSN: 09574174     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.eswa.2007.02.021     Document Type: Article

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