Building a binary outranking relation in uncertain, imprecise and multi-experts contexts: The application of evidence theory

International Journal of Approximate Reasoning

Volumn 50, Issue 8, 2009, Pages 1259-1278

  Boujelben, Mohamed Ayman ^a   Smet, Yves De ^b   Frikha, Ahmed ^c   Chabchoub, Habib ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SFAX   (Tunisia)

^b UNIVERSITÉ LIBRE DE BRUXELLES   (Belgium)

^c Higher Institute of Industrial Management of Sfax   (Tunisia)

Author keywords

ELECTRE I; Evidence theory; First belief dominance; Multi experts context; Multicriteria decision aid

Indexed keywords

ELECTRE I; EVIDENCE THEORY; FIRST BELIEF DOMINANCE; MULTI-EXPERTS CONTEXT; MULTICRITERIA DECISION AID;

DECISION SUPPORT SYSTEMS;

DECISION THEORY;

EID: 70349922936     PISSN: 0888613X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ijar.2009.06.001     Document Type: Article

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