Multicriteria decision making with 2-dimension linguistic aggregation techniques

International Journal of Intelligent Systems

Volumn 27, Issue 6, 2012, Pages 539-562

  Yu, Xiaohan ^a   Xu, Zeshui ^a   Liu, Shousheng ^a   Chen, Qi ^a  

^a PLA UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

INVERSE FUNCTIONS; LINGUISTIC LABELS; MAPPING FUNCTIONS; MULTI CRITERIA DECISION MAKING; ORDERED WEIGHTED AVERAGING; RELIABLE DECISION; TRIANGULAR FUZZY NUMBERS; WEIGHTED AVERAGING;

DECISION MAKING; STATISTICAL METHODS;

LINGUISTICS;

EID: 84860221902     PISSN: 08848173     EISSN: 1098111X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/int.21535     Document Type: Article

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