An alternative ranking approach and its usage in multi-criteria decision-making

International Journal of Computational Intelligence Systems

Volumn 2, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 219-235

  Kahraman, Cengiz ^a   Cagri Tolga, A ^b  

^a ISTANBUL TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

^b GALATASARAY UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

Author keywords

AHP; Decision making; Fuzzy numbers; Ranking; Scoring; TOPSIS

Indexed keywords

FUZZY RULES; FUZZY SETS; GRAPHIC METHODS; HIERARCHICAL SYSTEMS;

FUZZY NUMBERS; GRAPHICAL REPRESENTATIONS; MULTI CRITERIA DECISION MAKING; MULTI-CRITERIA DECISION MAKING METHODS; RANKING; RANKING OF FUZZY NUMBERS; SCORING; TOPSIS;

DECISION MAKING;

EID: 77952244111     PISSN: 18756891     EISSN: 18756883     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/18756891.2009.9727655     Document Type: Article

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