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

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Volumn 14, Issue 8, 2011, Pages 2711-2732

  Merigo, Jose M ^a   Casanovas, Montserrat ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BARCELONA   (Spain)

Author keywords

Decision making; Dempster shafer theory of evidence; Generalized aggregation operators; OWA operator; Uncertainty

Indexed keywords

EID: 84860195222     PISSN: 13434500     EISSN: 13448994     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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