Group multi-criteria decision making based upon interval-valued fuzzy numbers: An extension of the MULTIMOORA method

Expert Systems with Applications

Volumn 40, Issue 2, 2013, Pages 543-550

  Baležentis, Tomas ^a   Zeng, Shouzhen ^b  

^a Lithuanian Institute of Agrarian Economics   (Lithuania)

^b ZHEJIANG WANLI UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Generalized interval valued fuzzy numbers; Group multi criteria decision making; MULTIMOORA

Indexed keywords

AGGREGATION OPERATOR; INTERVAL-VALUED; INTERVAL-VALUED FUZZY NUMBERS; MULTI-CRITERIA DECISION MAKING; MULTIMOORA; NUMERICAL EXAMPLE; PERFORMANCE MANAGEMENT; TRAPEZOIDAL FUZZY NUMBERS; TYPE-2 FUZZY SET;

FUZZY RULES; FUZZY SET THEORY; PERSONNEL SELECTION;

DECISION MAKING;

EID: 84867653865     PISSN: 09574174     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.eswa.2012.07.066     Document Type: Article

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