A probabilistic model for linguistic multi-expert decision making involving semantic overlapping

Expert Systems with Applications

Volumn 38, Issue 7, 2011, Pages 8901-8912

  Yan, Hong Bin ^a   Huynh, Van Nam ^b   Nakamori, Yoshiteru ^b  

^a EAST CHINA UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (China)

^b JAPAN ADVANCED INSTITUTE OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Decision making; Decision makers' preferences; Experts' confidence; Linguistic aggregation; Linguistic assessments; Semantic overlapping

Indexed keywords

AGGREGATION PHASE; BASIC IDEA; BASIC MODELS; CHOICE FUNCTION; COMPARATIVE ANALYSIS; CONFIDENCE DEGREE; DECISION MAKERS; EXPERTS' CONFIDENCE; LINGUISTIC ASSESSMENTS; LINGUISTIC LABELS; MULTI-EXPERT DECISION MAKING; POSSIBILITY DISTRIBUTIONS; PREFERENCE INFORMATION; PROBABILISTIC MODELS; RANKING METHODS;

DECISION MAKING; PROBABILITY DISTRIBUTIONS; SEMANTICS;

LINGUISTICS;

EID: 79952449825     PISSN: 09574174     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.eswa.2011.01.105     Document Type: Article

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