Computing with words in decision support systems: An overview on models and applications

International Journal of Computational Intelligence Systems

Volumn 3, Issue 4, 2010, Pages 382-395

  Martínez, Luis ^a   Ruan, Da ^b,c   Herrera, Francisco ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF JAÉN   (Spain)

^b BELGIAN NUCLEAR RESEARCH CENTRE   (Belgium)

^c GHENT UNIVERSITY   (Belgium)

^d UNIVERSITY OF GRANADA   (Spain)

Author keywords

Computing with words; Decision support systems; Linguistic decision making

Indexed keywords

ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE; DECISION MAKING; LINGUISTICS; SOFT COMPUTING;

COMPUTING MODEL; COMPUTING WITH WORD (CWW); DECISION PROBLEMS; DECISION SITUATION; DECISION SUPPORT MODELS; IMPRECISE INFORMATION; LINGUISTIC INFORMATION; UNCERTAIN ENVIRONMENTS;

DECISION SUPPORT SYSTEMS;

EID: 78751631405     PISSN: 18756891     EISSN: 18756883     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/18756891.2010.9727709     Document Type: Article

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