Applying fuzzy linguistic preference relations to the improvement of consistency of fuzzy AHP

Information Sciences

Volumn 178, Issue 19, 2008, Pages 3755-3765

  Wang, Tien Chin ^a   Chen, Yueh Hsiang ^a,b  

^a I SHOU UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^b KAO YUAN UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

Consistency; Decision making; Fuzzy AHP; Fuzzy linguistic preference relations; Fuzzy LinPreRa

Indexed keywords

ANALYTIC HIERARCHY PROCESS; COMMUNICATION; DECISION MAKING; DECISION THEORY; FACILITIES; FOOD ADDITIVES; HIERARCHICAL SYSTEMS; INFORMATION MANAGEMENT; KNOWLEDGE MANAGEMENT; LEAD; LINGUISTICS; MATRIX ALGEBRA; PROBLEM SOLVING;

APPLIED (CO); DECISION MAKER (DM); ELSEVIER (CO); FACILITY LOCATIONS; FUZZY AHP; FUZZY ANALYTIC HIERARCHY PROCESS (FAHP); FUZZY GROUP DECISION MAKING; FUZZY LINGUISTIC; PAIR WISE COMPARISONS; PAIRWISE COMPARISON MATRICES; PREFERENCE RELATIONS; PROPERTY (S);

FUZZY LOGIC;

EID: 47849093865     PISSN: 00200255     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ins.2008.05.028     Document Type: Article

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