Extension of TOPSIS to determine weight of decision maker for group decision making problems with uncertain information

Expert Systems with Applications

Volumn 39, Issue 7, 2012, Pages 6343-6350

  Yue, Zhongliang ^a  

^a GUANGDONG OCEAN UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Extended TOPSIS; Multiple attribute group decision making; Negative ideal decision; Positive ideal decision; Weights of decision makers

Indexed keywords

DECISION MAKERS; EXTENDED TOPSIS; MULTIPLE ATTRIBUTE GROUP; NEGATIVE IDEAL DECISION; POSITIVE IDEAL DECISION;

INFORMATION SYSTEMS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS;

DECISION MAKING;

EID: 84856953515     PISSN: 09574174     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.eswa.2011.12.016     Document Type: Article

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