Sensitivity analysis of the OWA operator

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

Volumn 38, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 547-552

  Zarghami, Mahdi ^a   Szidarovszky, Ferenc ^b   Ardakanian, Reza ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TABRIZ   (Iran)

^b University of Arizona   (United States)

^c SHARIF UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Iran)

Author keywords

Fuzzy linguistic quantifiers; Minimal variability method; Optimism degree; Ordered weighted averaging (OWA) operator; Sensitivity analysis

Indexed keywords

COMPUTATIONAL METHODS; MATHEMATICAL OPERATORS; OPTIMIZATION; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS;

FUZZY LINGUISTIC QUANTIFIERS; MINIMAL VARIABILITY METHOD; OPTIMISM DEGREE; ORDERED WEIGHTED AVERAGING (OWA) OPERATOR;

COMPUTER AIDED SOFTWARE ENGINEERING;

ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; AUTOMATED PATTERN RECOGNITION; COMPUTER SIMULATION; FUZZY LOGIC; INFORMATION RETRIEVAL; METHODOLOGY; REPRODUCIBILITY; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; STATISTICAL MODEL;

ALGORITHMS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; FUZZY LOGIC; INFORMATION STORAGE AND RETRIEVAL; MODELS, STATISTICAL; PATTERN RECOGNITION, AUTOMATED; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY;

EID: 41649113550     PISSN: 10834419     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TSMCB.2007.912745     Document Type: Article

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