A fuzzy digraph method for robot evaluation and selection

Expert Systems with Applications

Volumn 38, Issue 9, 2011, Pages 11901-11910

  Koulouriotis, D E ^a   Ketipi, M K ^a  

^a DEMOCRITUS UNIVERSITY OF THRACE   (Greece)

Author keywords

Decision making; Fuzzy digraph; Fuzzy TOPSIS; Robot selection

Indexed keywords

DECISION MAKERS; DIGRAPH MODELS; EVALUATION METHOD; FUZZY DIGRAPH; FUZZY MATRIX; FUZZY NUMBERS; FUZZY OUTPUT; FUZZY TOPSIS; LINGUISTIC TERMS; MATRIX; MATRIX APPROACH; NUMERICAL EXAMPLE; PRODUCTION DEMAND; RELATIVE IMPORTANCE; ROBOT SELECTION; SELECTION INDEXES; SELECTION PROBLEMS;

DECISION MAKING; FUZZY SETS; GRAPH THEORY; INDUSTRIAL APPLICATIONS; LINGUISTICS; MATRIX ALGEBRA;

ROBOTS;

EID: 79955583527     PISSN: 09574174     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.eswa.2011.03.082     Document Type: Article

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