Interval-valued fuzzy TOPSIS method with leniency reduction and an experimental analysis

Applied Soft Computing Journal

Volumn 11, Issue 8, 2011, Pages 4591-4606

  Chen, Ting Yu ^a  

^a CHANG GUNG UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

Experimental analysis; Integrated programming model; Interval valued fuzzy set; Leniency bias; Multiple criteria decision analysis; TOPSIS

Indexed keywords

EXPERIMENTAL ANALYSIS; INTEGRATED PROGRAMMING; INTERVAL-VALUED FUZZY SETS; LENIENCY BIAS; MULTIPLE-CRITERIA DECISION ANALYSIS; TOPSIS;

COMPUTER PROGRAMMING; DECISION MAKING; FUZZY SETS; OPTIMIZATION;

NUMERICAL METHODS;

EID: 80053576199     PISSN: 15684946     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.asoc.2011.08.002     Document Type: Article

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