Normalizing rank aggregation method for priority of a fuzzy preference relation and its effectiveness

International Journal of Approximate Reasoning

Volumn 50, Issue 8, 2009, Pages 1287-1297

  Xu, YeJun ^a,b   Da, QingLi ^b   Liu, LiHua ^a  

^a HOHAI UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b Southeast University   (China)

Author keywords

Fuzzy relation; Multi attribute decision making; Normalizing rank aggregation method; Priority

Indexed keywords

FUNCTIONAL EQUATION; FUZZY PREFERENCE RELATIONS; FUZZY PREFERENCES; FUZZY RELATION; MULTI-ATTRIBUTE DECISION MAKING; NORMALIZING RANK AGGREGATION METHOD; NUMERICAL EXAMPLE; PREFERENCE RELATION; PRIORITY; PRIORITY VECTOR; RANK AGGREGATION;

NUMERICAL METHODS;

DECISION MAKING;

EID: 70349759368     PISSN: 0888613X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ijar.2009.06.008     Document Type: Article

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