The LTOPSIS: An alternative to TOPSIS decision-making approach for linguistic variables

Expert Systems with Applications

Volumn 39, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 2119-2126

  Cables, Elio ^a   García Cascales, M Socorro ^b   Lamata, M Teresa ^c  

^a UNIVERSIDAD DE HOLGUÍN   (Cuba)

^b UNIVERSITY OF GRANADA   (Spain)

^c TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF CARTAGENA   (Spain)

Author keywords

Fuzzy numbers; Linguistic variables; TOPSIS method

Indexed keywords

CLASSIC ALGORITHM; DECISION PROCESS; EVALUATION APPROACH; FUZZY NUMBERS; IDEAL SOLUTIONS; LINGUISTIC VARIABLE; LINGUISTIC VARIABLES; NEW MODEL; TOPSIS METHOD;

ALGORITHMS; DECISION MAKING; FUZZY SETS;

LINGUISTICS;

EID: 80054940944     PISSN: 09574174     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.eswa.2011.07.119     Document Type: Conference Paper

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