Supporting consensus reaching processes under fuzzy preferences and a fuzzy majority via linguistic summaries

Studies in Fuzziness and Soft Computing

Volumn 257, Issue , 2010, Pages 261-279

  Kacprzyk, Janusz ^a   Zadrozny, Sławomir ^a  

^a SYSTEMS RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Poland)

Author keywords

consensus; consensus reaching support; fuzzy logic; fuzzy majority; fuzzy preference; linguistic quantifier; OWA (ordered weighted averaging) operator

Indexed keywords

EID: 77956376833     PISSN: 14349922     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-642-15976-3_15     Document Type: Article

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