An OWA-TOPSIS method for multiple criteria decision analysis

Expert Systems with Applications

Volumn 38, Issue 5, 2011, Pages 5205-5211

  Chen, Ye ^a   Li, Kevin W ^b   Liu, Si Feng ^a  

^a NANJING UNIVERSITY OF AERONAUTICS AND ASTRONAUTICS   (China)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WINDSOR   (Canada)

Author keywords

Decision aggregation; Distance based ranking; Multiple criteria decision analysis; OWA; TOPSIS

Indexed keywords

DECISION AGGREGATION; DISTANCE-BASED RANKING; MULTIPLE CRITERIA DECISION ANALYSIS; OWA; TOPSIS;

DECISION MAKING;

DECISION THEORY;

EID: 79151479185     PISSN: 09574174     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.eswa.2010.10.039     Document Type: Article

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