Aggregation of ordinal data using ordered weighted averaging operator weights

Annals of Operations Research

Volumn 201, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 1-16

  Ahn, B S ^a   Choi, S H ^b  

^a DongJak Gu   (South Korea)

^b Chungbuk National University   (South Korea)

Author keywords

Discriminating factor; Ordered weighted averaging (OWA); Ordinal data; Rank based weight; Ranking weight

Indexed keywords

EID: 84861998202     PISSN: 02545330     EISSN: 15729338     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10479-012-1169-3     Document Type: Article

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