Multi-attribute decision making in contractor selection under hybrid uncertainty

Journal of Advanced Computational Intelligence and Intelligent Informatics

Volumn 15, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 465-472

  Nureize, Arbaiy ^a,b   Watada, Junzo ^a  

^a WASEDA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b UNIVERSITI TUN HUSSEIN ONN MALAYSIA   (Malaysia)

Author keywords

Contractor selection; Fuzzy random regression; Fuzzy random variables; Multi attribute evaluation

Indexed keywords

EID: 79959281873     PISSN: 13430130     EISSN: 18838014     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.20965/jaciii.2011.p0465     Document Type: Conference Paper

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