Fuzzy MCDM based on the concept of α-cut

Journal of Multi-Criteria Decision Analysis

Volumn 12, Issue 6, 2003, Pages 299-310

  Liang, Gin Shuh ^a   Ding, Ji Feng ^b  

^a NATIONAL TAIWAN OCEAN UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^b CHANG JUNG CHRISTIAN UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

Fuzzy MCDM; Fuzzy ranking; Triangular fuzzy numbers; cut

Indexed keywords

EID: 79960191614     PISSN: 10579214     EISSN: 10991360     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/mcda.366     Document Type: Article

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