A new linguistic MCDM method based on multiple-criterion data fusion

Expert Systems with Applications

Volumn 38, Issue 6, 2011, Pages 6985-6993

  Deng, Yong ^a,c   Chan, Felix T S ^b   Wu, Ying ^a   Wang, Dong ^a  

^a SHANGHAI JIAO TONG UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b HONG KONG POLYTECHNIC UNIVERSITY   (Hong Kong)

^c SOUTHWEST UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Dempster Shafer evidence theory; Fuzzy sets theory; MCDM

Indexed keywords

BASIC PROBABILITY ASSIGNMENT; DEMPSTER RULE OF COMBINATION; DEMPSTER SHAFER EVIDENCE THEORY; DEMPSTER-SHAFER THEORY OF EVIDENCE; FUSION TECHNOLOGY; FUZZY SETS THEORY; IMPORTANCE WEIGHTS; MATHEMATICAL TOOLS; MCDM; MULTIPLE-CRITERIA DECISION-MAKING; NUMERICAL EXAMPLE; PLANT LOCATIONS; TRIANGULAR FUZZY NUMBERS; UNCERTAIN ENVIRONMENTS; UNCERTAIN INFORMATIONS;

DATA FUSION; DECISION MAKING; DECISION THEORY; FORMAL LOGIC; FUZZY SETS; INFORMATION FUSION; LOCATION; NUMERICAL METHODS;

FUZZY SET THEORY;

EID: 79951581529     PISSN: 09574174     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.eswa.2010.12.016     Document Type: Article

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