An outranking method for multi-criteria decision making with duplex linguistic information

Fuzzy Sets and Systems

Volumn 198, Issue , 2012, Pages 20-33

  Yang, Wu E ^a,b   Wang, Jian Qiang ^a   Wang, Xin Fan ^a  

^a CENTRAL SOUTH UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b CENTRAL SOUTH UNIVERSITY OF FORESTRY AND TECHNOLOGY   (China)

Author keywords

Decision analysis; Duplex linguistic set; Electre method; Linguistic modeling; MCDM; Outranking method

Indexed keywords

DUPLEX LINGUISTIC SET; ELECTRE; LINGUISTIC MODELING; MCDM; OUTRANKING METHODS;

DECISION MAKING; DECISION THEORY;

LINGUISTICS;

EID: 84862818545     PISSN: 01650114     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.fss.2012.02.013     Document Type: Article

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