A Relative Entropy Approach to Group Decision Making with Interval Reciprocal Relations Based on COWA Operator

Group Decision and Negotiation

Volumn 21, Issue 4, 2012, Pages 585-599

  Chen, Huayou ^a,b   Zhou, Ligang ^a  

^a ANHUI UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

COWA operator; Group decision making; Interval reciprocal relation; Relative entropy

Indexed keywords

EID: 84862170441     PISSN: 09262644     EISSN: 15729907     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10726-011-9228-8     Document Type: Article

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