A collective decision model involving vague concepts and linguistic expressions

IEEE Transactions on Systems, Man, and Cybernetics, Part B: Cybernetics

Volumn 38, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 421-428

  Tang, Yongchuan ^a  

^a ZHEJIANG UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Collective decision; Computing with words; Linguistic evaluation; Linguistic expression; Linguistic information fusion; Semantic similarity

Indexed keywords

DATA FUSION; EXPERT SYSTEMS; LINGUISTICS; LOGIC PROGRAMMING; PROBABILITY DISTRIBUTIONS; SEMANTICS;

COLLECTIVE DECISION MODEL; LOGIC CONNECTIVES; SIMILARITY DISTRIBUTION;

DECISION THEORY;

ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE; AUTOMATED PATTERN RECOGNITION; DECISION SUPPORT SYSTEM; FUZZY LOGIC; LANGUAGE; LINGUISTICS; METHODOLOGY; NATURAL LANGUAGE PROCESSING;

ALGORITHMS; ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE; DECISION SUPPORT TECHNIQUES; FUZZY LOGIC; LANGUAGE; LINGUISTICS; NATURAL LANGUAGE PROCESSING; PATTERN RECOGNITION, AUTOMATED; VOCABULARY, CONTROLLED;

EID: 41649107497     PISSN: 10834419     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TSMCB.2007.913125     Document Type: Article

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