Combining of judgments in imprecise voting multi-criteria decision problems

International Journal of Applied Decision Sciences

Volumn 5, Issue 3, 2012, Pages 199-214

  Utkin, Lev V ^a   Zhuk, Yulia A ^a  

^a SAINT PETERSBURG STATE FOREST TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY   (Russian Federation)

Author keywords

AHP; Analytic hierarchy process; Dempster Shafer theory; DST; IDM; Imprecise Dirichlet model; Multi criteria decision problem; Pairwise comparison; Preferences

Indexed keywords

ANALYTIC HIERARCHY PROCESS; DECISION MAKING; PROBABILISTIC LOGICS;

DEMPSTER-SHAFER THEORY; IMPRECISE DIRICHLET MODEL; MULTI-CRITERIA DECISION PROBLEMS; PAIR-WISE COMPARISON; PREFERENCES;

DECISION THEORY;

EID: 84863711981     PISSN: 17558077     EISSN: 17558085     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1504/IJADS.2012.047667     Document Type: Article

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