A fuzzy risk-assessment method using a TOPSIS approach based oninterval-valued fuzzy numbers

Journal of the Chinese Institute of Industrial Engineers

Volumn 28, Issue 6, 2011, Pages 467-484

  Lai, Hung Lin ^a,b   Chen, Ting Yu ^c  

^a CHANG GUNG UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^b LEE MING INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Taiwan)

^c CHANG GUNG UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

Decision making; High tech corporation; Interval valued fuzzy numbers; Risk analysis; Similarity measure; TOPSIS

Indexed keywords

DECISION MAKERS; DECISION MAKING PROCESS; FUZZY NUMBERS; HIGH-TECH CORPORATION; IDEAL SOLUTIONS; INTERVAL-VALUED FUZZY NUMBERS; LINGUISTIC TERMS; PREFERENCE-BASED; SIMILARITY MEASURE; TOPSIS; TOPSIS METHOD; UNCERTAIN ENVIRONMENTS;

DECISION MAKING; FUZZY RULES; INDUSTRY; LINGUISTICS; RISK ANALYSIS;

RISK ASSESSMENT;

EID: 81255171907     PISSN: 10170669     EISSN: 21517606     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/10170669.2011.613953     Document Type: Article

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