Dynamic multi-attribute decision making model with grey number evaluations

Expert Systems with Applications

Volumn 35, Issue 4, 2008, Pages 1638-1644

  Lin, Yong Huang ^a   Lee, Pin Chan ^a   Ting, Hsin I ^b  

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

^b CTCI CORPORATION   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

Dynamic multi attribute decision making; Grey number; Grey relational analysis; Minkowski distance function; TOPSIS

Indexed keywords

CHLORINE COMPOUNDS; CONTRACTORS; CONTRACTS; PROBLEM SOLVING;

DYNAMIC DECISION MAKING; DYNAMIC MULTI-ATTRIBUTE DECISION MAKING; GREY NUMBER; GREY RELATIONAL ANALYSIS; MAIN STRUCTURE; MINKOWSKI DISTANCE; MINKOWSKI DISTANCE FUNCTION; MULTI-ATTRIBUTE DECISION-MAKING; REAL-WORLD APPLICATIONS; RELIABLE DECISION; TOPSIS; UNCERTAIN INFORMATIONS;

DECISION MAKING;

EID: 48949091158     PISSN: 09574174     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.eswa.2007.08.064     Document Type: Article

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