Revising the OWA operator for multi criteria decision making problems under uncertainty

European Journal of Operational Research

Volumn 198, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 259-265

  Zarghami, Mahdi ^a   Szidarovszky, Ferenc ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TABRIZ   (Iran)

^b University of Arizona   (United States)

Author keywords

Fuzzy linguistic quantifiers; Multi criteria decision making; Ordered weighted averaging; Stochastic uncertainty; Watershed management

Indexed keywords

LANDFORMS; LINGUISTICS; RANDOM PROCESSES; RISK PERCEPTION; SOIL CONSERVATION; UNCERTAINTY ANALYSIS; WATER CONSERVATION; WATER MANAGEMENT; WATERSHEDS;

FUZZY LINGUISTIC QUANTIFIERS; MULTI CRITERIA DECISION MAKING; ORDERED WEIGHTED AVERAGING; STOCHASTIC UNCERTAINTY; WATERSHED MANAGEMENT;

MANAGEMENT;

EID: 62549095877     PISSN: 03772217     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ejor.2008.09.014     Document Type: Article

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