The evidential reasoning approach for multi-attribute decision analysis under both fuzzy and interval uncertainty

Advances in Soft Computing

Volumn 46, Issue , 2008, Pages 129-140

  Guo, Min ^a   Yang, Jian Bo ^a,c   Chin, Kwai Sang ^b   Wang, Hongwei ^a  

^a HUAZHONG UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (China)

^b CITY UNIVERSITY OF HONG KONG   (Hong Kong)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MANCHESTER   (United Kingdom)

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EID: 58149139219     PISSN: 16153871     EISSN: 18600794     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-540-77664-2_11     Document Type: Article

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