Rough set approach to multiple criteria classification with imprecise evaluations and assignments

European Journal of Operational Research

Volumn 198, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 626-636

  Dembczyński, Krzysztof ^a   Greco, Salvatore ^b   Słowiński, Roman ^a,c  

^a POZNAN UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Poland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CATANIA   (Italy)

^c SYSTEMS RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Poland)

Author keywords

Decision rules; Dominance based rough set approach; Imprecise information; Interval order; Monotonicity constraints; Multiple criteria classification; Multiple criteria decision analysis; Ordinal classification

Indexed keywords

DECISION MAKING; DECISION THEORY; FUZZY SETS; ROUGH SET THEORY;

DECISION RULES; DOMINANCE-BASED ROUGH SET APPROACH; IMPRECISE INFORMATION; INTERVAL ORDER; MONOTONICITY CONSTRAINTS; MULTIPLE CRITERIA CLASSIFICATION; MULTIPLE CRITERIA DECISION ANALYSIS; ORDINAL CLASSIFICATION;

DECISION TABLES;

EID: 63349099411     PISSN: 03772217     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ejor.2008.09.033     Document Type: Article

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