A linguistic intelligent user guide for method selection in multi-objective decision support systems

Information Sciences

Volumn 179, Issue 14, 2009, Pages 2299-2308

  Zhang, Guangquan ^a   Lu, Jie ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY SYDNEY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Decision support systems; Fuzzy matching; Fuzzy sets; Intelligent user guide; Linguistic terms; Multi objective decision making

Indexed keywords

DECISION MAKERS; DECISION PROBLEMS; DEEP KNOWLEDGE; FUZZY DISTANCES; FUZZY MATCHING; FUZZY MULTI CRITERIA DECISION MAKINGS; FUZZY NUMBERS; INTELLIGENT USER GUIDE; LINGUISTIC TERMS; MATCHING TECHNIQUES; MODELLING PROCESS; MULTI-OBJECTIVE DECISION-MAKING; REAL-WORLD; RULE-BASED INFERENCES;

ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE; DECISION SUPPORT SYSTEMS; DECISION THEORY; FUZZY INFERENCE; FUZZY SETS; LINGUISTICS; MULTIOBJECTIVE OPTIMIZATION;

DECISION MAKING;

EID: 67349180195     PISSN: 00200255     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ins.2009.01.043     Document Type: Article

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