An intuitionistic fuzzy AHP based on synthesis of eigenvectors and its application

Information Technology Journal

Volumn 10, Issue 10, 2011, Pages 1850-1866

  Wang, Hai ^a   Qian, Gang ^a,b   Feng, Xiangqian ^a  

^a NANJING NORMAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b Jiangsu Research Center of Information Security and Privacy Technology   (China)

Author keywords

Comparison matrix; Eigenvector; Fuzzy AHP; Intuitionistic fuzzy set; Multi criteria decision making

Indexed keywords

ANALYTICAL HIERARCHY PROCESS; COMPARISON MATRIX; DEFUZZIFICATIONS; EIGEN-VALUE; FINAL DECISION; FUZZY AHP; INTUITIONISTIC FUZZY; INTUITIONISTIC FUZZY SETS; LINEAR PROGRAM MODELS; MATRIX; MULTI CRITERIA DECISION MAKING;

ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE; DECISION MAKING; DECISION SUPPORT SYSTEMS; FUZZY SETS; HIERARCHICAL SYSTEMS;

EIGENVALUES AND EIGENFUNCTIONS;

EID: 80053651214     PISSN: 18125638     EISSN: 18125646     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3923/itj.2011.1850.1866     Document Type: Article

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