Fuzzy risk analysis based on fuzzy numbers with different shapes and different deviations

Expert Systems with Applications

Volumn 34, Issue 4, 2008, Pages 2763-2771

  Lee, Li Wei ^a   Chen, Shyi Ming ^a,b  

^a NATIONAL TAIWAN UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Taiwan)

^b JINWEN UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

Experts' confidence; Fuzzy numbers; Fuzzy risk analysis; Index of optimism; Ranking methods

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; COMPUTATIONAL EFFICIENCY; EXPERT SYSTEMS; PROBLEM SOLVING; RISK ANALYSIS;

EXPERTS CONFIDENCE; FUZZY RISK ANALYSIS; INDEX OF OPTIMISM; RANKING METHODS;

FUZZY SETS;

EID: 38649136310     PISSN: 09574174     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.eswa.2007.05.009     Document Type: Article

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