Fuzzy linguistic decision to provide alternatives to market mechanism strategies

Expert Systems with Applications

Volumn 37, Issue 10, 2010, Pages 6986-6996

  Lin, Ling Zhong ^a   Yeh, Huery Ren ^a  

^a SHIH CHIEN UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

Fuzzy linguistic; Market mechanism strategy; Uncertainty

Indexed keywords

DECISION MAKING; LINGUISTICS; SALES;

DECISION MAKING CRITERIA; EVALUATION CRITERIA; FUZZY EVALUATION; FUZZY LINGUISTICS; HIERARCHY PROCESS; INFORMATION TRANSMISSION; MARKET MECHANISMS; UNCERTAINTY;

COMMERCE;

EID: 79955570171     PISSN: 09574174     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.eswa.2010.03.020     Document Type: Article

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