Soft consensus model based on coincidence between positive and negative ideal degrees of agreement under a group decision-making fuzzy environment

Expert Systems with Applications

Volumn 37, Issue 5, 2010, Pages 3977-3985

  Khorshid, Seddigheh ^a  

^a SHAHID BAHONAR UNIVERSITY OF KERMAN   (Iran)

Author keywords

Coincidence; Fuzzy sets theory; Fuzzy system models; Positive and negative idea degrees of agreement; Soft consensus

Indexed keywords

DECISION MAKERS; FUZZY ENVIRONMENTS; FUZZY SETS THEORY; FUZZY SYSTEM MODELS; GROUP DECISION-MAKING; MODEL APPLICATION; MODEL-BASED; NUMERICAL EXAMPLE;

DECISION MAKING; FUZZY LOGIC; FUZZY SETS; MODEL STRUCTURES;

FUZZY SET THEORY;

EID: 73249127365     PISSN: 09574174     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.eswa.2009.11.018     Document Type: Article

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