An evidential reasoning based consensus model for multiple attribute group decision analysis problems with interval-valued group consensus requirements

European Journal of Operational Research

Volumn 223, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 167-176

  Fu, Chao ^a,b   Yang, Shanlin ^a,b  

^a HEFEI UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (China)

^b BEIJING UNIVERSITY OF POSTS AND TELECOMMUNICATIONS   (China)

Author keywords

Decision analysis; Evidential reasoning based consensus model; Feedback mechanism; Missing assessment; Multiple attribute group decision analysis; Nonlinear optimization

Indexed keywords

EVIDENTIAL REASONING; FEEDBACK MECHANISMS; MISSING ASSESSMENT; MULTIPLE ATTRIBUTE GROUP; NON-LINEAR OPTIMIZATION;

DECISION THEORY; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; OPERATIONS RESEARCH;

DECISION MAKING;

EID: 84864433637     PISSN: 03772217     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ejor.2012.05.048     Document Type: Article

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