A new integrated design concept evaluation approach based on vague sets

Expert Systems with Applications

Volumn 37, Issue 9, 2010, Pages 6629-6638

  Geng, Xiuli ^a   Chu, Xuening ^a   Zhang, Zaifang ^a  

^a SHANGHAI JIAO TONG UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Design concept evaluation; Group decision making; TOPSIS; Vague cross entropy; Vague numbers; Vague sets

Indexed keywords

CONCEPTUAL DESIGN; DECISION MAKING; DECISION THEORY; DIRECTIONAL DRILLING; ENTROPY; PRODUCT DESIGN; PRODUCT DEVELOPMENT; SET THEORY;

DESIGN CONCEPT; GROUP DECISION MAKING; TOPSIS; VAGUE CROSS-ENTROPY; VAGUE NUMBERS; VAGUE SETS;

FUZZY SET THEORY;

EID: 79951744658     PISSN: 09574174     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.eswa.2010.03.058     Document Type: Article

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