A goal programming approach to group decision-making with three formats of incomplete preference relations

Soft Computing

Volumn 14, Issue 10, 2010, Pages 1083-1090

  Fan, Zhi Ping ^a   Zhang, Yao ^b  

^a NORTHEASTERN UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b NORTHEASTERN UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Alternative ranking; Goal programming; Group decision making (GDM); Incomplete preference relation

Indexed keywords

ALTERNATIVE RANKING; DECISION MAKERS; GOAL PROGRAMMING; GOAL PROGRAMMING MODEL; GROUP DECISION-MAKING; INCOMPLETE FUZZY PREFERENCE RELATION; INCOMPLETE LINGUISTIC PREFERENCE RELATIONS; NUMERICAL EXAMPLE; PREFERENCE INFORMATION; PREFERENCE RELATION; RANKING VALUES; TRANSFORMATION FUNCTIONS;

LINGUISTICS; WAVELET TRANSFORMS;

DECISION MAKING;

EID: 77954088758     PISSN: 14327643     EISSN: 14337479     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00500-009-0503-4     Document Type: Article

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