Fuzzy aggregation operators in decision making with Dempster-Shafer belief structure

Expert Systems with Applications

Volumn 39, Issue 8, 2012, Pages 7138-7149

  Casanovas, Montserrat ^a   Merigó, José M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BARCELONA   (Spain)

Author keywords

Decision making; Dempster Shafer theory; Fuzzy numbers; Fuzzy OWA operator; Investment selection; Uncertainty

Indexed keywords

AGGREGATION OPERATOR; BELIEF STRUCTURES; DECISION-MAKING PROBLEM; DEMPSTER-SHAFER BELIEF STRUCTURE; DEMPSTER-SHAFER THEORY; DEMPSTER-SHAFER THEORY OF EVIDENCE; FUZZY AGGREGATION OPERATORS; FUZZY NUMBERS; FUZZY OWA OPERATOR; FUZZY WEIGHTED AVERAGE; ILLUSTRATIVE EXAMPLES; ORDERED WEIGHTED AVERAGING; QUASIARITHMETIC MEANS; UNCERTAINTY;

DECISION MAKING; FUZZY RULES; STATISTICAL METHODS;

MATHEMATICAL OPERATORS;

EID: 84857658553     PISSN: 09574174     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.eswa.2012.01.030     Document Type: Article

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