Computing with words for hierarchical competency based selection of personnel in construction companies

Applied Soft Computing Journal

Volumn 12, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 860-871

  Safarzadegan Gilan, Siamak ^a   Sebt, Mohammad Hassan ^a   Shahhosseini, Vahid ^a  

^a AMIRKABIR UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Iran)

Author keywords

Competency; Computing with words (CWW); Construction personnel; Fuzzy multiple criteria decision making (FMCDM); Interval type 2 fuzzy set (IT2 FS); Linguistic Weighted Average (LWA); Perceptual computing

Indexed keywords

COMPETENCY; COMPUTING WITH WORDS; CONSTRUCTION PERSONNEL; FUZZY MULTIPLE CRITERIA DECISION MAKING; INTERVAL TYPE-2 FUZZY SETS; LINGUISTIC WEIGHTED AVERAGE (LWA); PERCEPTUAL COMPUTING;

COMPUTER ARCHITECTURE; CONSTRUCTION INDUSTRY; ENTERPRISE RESOURCE MANAGEMENT; FUZZY SETS; LINGUISTICS; PERSONNEL; PROJECT MANAGEMENT; SOFT COMPUTING; STATISTICAL METHODS;

PERSONNEL SELECTION;

EID: 84655169921     PISSN: 15684946     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.asoc.2011.10.004     Document Type: Article

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