Fuzzy multi-person decision making with fuzzy probabilistic aggregation operators

International Journal of Fuzzy Systems

Volumn 13, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 163-174

  Merigó, José M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BARCELONA   (Spain)

Author keywords

Fuzzy multi person decision making; Fuzzy numbers; OWA operator; Probabilities

Indexed keywords

FUZZY SETS; MATHEMATICAL OPERATORS;

AGGREGATION OPERATOR; DECISION-MAKING MODELING; DECISIONS MAKINGS; FUZZY MULTI-PERSON DECISION MAKING; FUZZY NUMBERS; NEW APPROACHES; ORDERED WEIGHTED AVERAGING OPERATOR; OWA OPERATORS; PROBABILISTIC INFORMATION; PROBABILISTICS;

DECISION MAKING;

EID: 80054979867     PISSN: 15622479     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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