Probabilistic aggregation operators and their application in uncertain multi-person decision-making

Technological and Economic Development of Economy

Volumn 17, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 335-351

  Merigó, José M ^a   Wei, Guiwu ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BARCELONA   (Spain)

^b CHONGQING UNIVERSITY OF ARTS AND SCIENCES   (China)

Author keywords

Interval numbers; Multi person decision making; OWA operator; Policy management; Probabilistic OWA operator; Probabilities; Uncertainty

Indexed keywords

EID: 80054976538     PISSN: 20294913     EISSN: 20294921     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3846/20294913.2011.584961     Document Type: Article

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