Group decision-making with generalized and probabilistic aggregation operators

International Journal of Innovative Computing, Information and Control

Volumn 8, Issue 7 A, 2012, Pages 4823-4835

  Merigó, José M ^a   Casanovas, Montserrat ^a   Engemann, Kurt J ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BARCELONA   (Spain)

^b IONA COLLEGE   (United States)

Author keywords

Aggregation operators; Decision making; OWA operator; Probability

Indexed keywords

AGGREGATION OPERATOR; GROUP DECISION-MAKING; OPTIMAL STRATEGIES; ORDERED WEIGHTED AVERAGING; OWA OPERATORS; UNIFIED MODEL;

DECISION MAKING; PROBABILITY;

MATHEMATICAL OPERATORS;

EID: 84862323259     PISSN: 13494198     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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