Fuzzy multi-criteria selection among transportation companies with fuzzy linguistic preference relations

Expert Systems with Applications

Volumn 38, Issue 9, 2011, Pages 11884-11890

  Wang, Tien Chin ^a,b   Chen, Ying Hsiu ^a  

^a I SHOU UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^b NATIONAL KAOHSIUNG UNIVERSITY OF APPLIED SCIENCES   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

AHP; Extent analysis method (EAM); Fuzzy linguistic preference relations; Fuzzy LinPreRa; Transportation company selection

Indexed keywords

AHP; EXTENT ANALYSIS METHOD (EAM); FUZZY LINGUISTIC PREFERENCE RELATIONS; FUZZY LINPRERA; TRANSPORTATION COMPANY SELECTION;

HIERARCHICAL SYSTEMS; LINGUISTICS; SUPPLY CHAINS;

TRANSPORTATION;

EID: 79955596161     PISSN: 09574174     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.eswa.2011.03.080     Document Type: Article

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