An efficient pruning method for decision alternatives of OWA operators

IEEE Transactions on Fuzzy Systems

Volumn 16, Issue 6, 2008, Pages 1542-1549

  Ahn, Byeong S ^a   Park, Haechurt ^a  

^a Chung Ang University   (South Korea)

Author keywords

Decision making under uncertainty; Infeasible alternative; Ordered weighted averaging (OWA) operator; Pruning alternative (PA); Simulation analysis

Indexed keywords

DECISION MAKING UNDER UNCERTAINTY; INFEASIBLE ALTERNATIVE; ORDERED WEIGHTED AVERAGING (OWA) OPERATOR; PRUNING ALTERNATIVE (PA); SIMULATION ANALYSIS;

UNCERTAINTY ANALYSIS;

EID: 58149514454     PISSN: 10636706     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TFUZZ.2008.2005012     Document Type: Article

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