A subjective weighting method based on group decision making for ranking and measuring criteria values

Australian Journal of Basic and Applied Sciences

Volumn 5, Issue 12, 2011, Pages 2034-2040

  Toloie Eshlaghy, Abbas ^a   Homayonfar, Mahdi ^a   Aghaziarati, Masoumeh ^a   Arbabiun, Pouneh ^a  

^a ISLAMIC AZAD UNIVERSITY   (Iran)

Author keywords

Group decision making; Multi criteria decision making (MCDM); Rank order; Weighting method

Indexed keywords

EID: 84856480990     PISSN: 19918178     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Review

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