An approach to multiattribute decision making with interval-valued intuitionistic fuzzy assessments and incomplete weights

Information Sciences

Volumn 179, Issue 17, 2009, Pages 3026-3040

  Wang, Zhoujing ^a   Li, Kevin W ^b   Wang, Weize ^a  

^a XIAMEN UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WINDSOR   (Canada)

Author keywords

Interval valued intuitionistic fuzzy numbers (IVIFNs); Linear programming; Multiattribute decision making; Uncertainty index

Indexed keywords

ATTRIBUTE WEIGHT; COMPARATIVE STUDIES; INTERVAL-VALUED; INTERVAL-VALUED INTUITIONISTIC FUZZY NUMBER; INTERVAL-VALUED INTUITIONISTIC FUZZY NUMBERS (IVIFNS); INTUITIONISTIC FUZZY; INVESTMENT DECISIONS; LINEAR PROGRAMS; MULTIATTRIBUTE DECISION MAKING; NOVEL METHODS; OPTIMIZATION MODELS; UNCERTAINTY INDEX;

DYNAMIC PROGRAMMING; FUZZY RULES; FUZZY SETS; INVESTMENTS; LINEAR PROGRAMMING; LINEARIZATION; OPTIMIZATION;

DECISION MAKING;

EID: 67549135460     PISSN: 00200255     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ins.2009.05.001     Document Type: Article

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