Trust estimation in a virtual team: A decision support method

Expert Systems with Applications

Volumn 38, Issue 8, 2011, Pages 10240-10251

  Fan, Zhi Ping ^a   Suo, Wei Lan ^a,b   Feng, Bo ^c   Liu, Yang ^a  

^a NORTHEASTERN UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b Chinese Academy of Science   (China)

^c SOUTH CHINA UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (China)

Author keywords

2 Tuple fuzzy linguistic representation model; Decision support; Multiattribute decision analysis (MADA); Trust estimation; Virtual team

Indexed keywords

DECISION SUPPORT; FUZZY LINGUISTICS; MULTI-ATTRIBUTE DECISION ANALYSIS; TRUST ESTIMATION; VIRTUAL TEAM;

DECISION MAKING; DECISION SUPPORT SYSTEMS; DECISION THEORY; LINGUISTICS;

ESTIMATION;

EID: 79953684545     PISSN: 09574174     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.eswa.2011.02.060     Document Type: Article

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