Fuzzy quantifiers in sensitivity analysis of OWA operator

Computers and Industrial Engineering

Volumn 54, Issue 4, 2008, Pages 1006-1018

  Zarghami, Mahdi ^a   Szidarovszky, Ferenc ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TABRIZ   (Iran)

^b University of Arizona   (United States)

Author keywords

Fuzzy quantifiers; OWA operator; Sensitivity analysis; Unimodal quantifiers

Indexed keywords

COMPUTATIONAL EFFICIENCY; DECISION MAKING; MATHEMATICAL OPERATORS; PROBLEM SOLVING; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS;

FUZZY QUANTIFIERS; ORDERED WEIGHTED AVERAGING (OWA) OPERATORS; UNIMODAL QUANTIFIERS;

FUZZY SETS;

EID: 41449083919     PISSN: 03608352     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.cie.2007.11.012     Document Type: Article

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