A new design of the elimination and choice translating reality method for multi-criteria group decision-making in an intuitionistic fuzzy environment

Applied Mathematical Modelling

Volumn 37, Issue 4, 2013, Pages 1781-1799

  Vahdani, Behnam ^a   Mousavi, S Meysam ^a   Tavakkoli Moghaddam, R ^a   Hashemi, H ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEHRAN   (Iran)

^b ISLAMIC AZAD UNIVERSITY   (Iran)

Author keywords

Elimination and choice translating reality method; Flexible manufacturing systems; Group decision making; Intuitionistic fuzzy sets; Multiple criteria evaluation

Indexed keywords

APPLICATION EXAMPLES; COMPARATIVE ANALYSIS; DECISION GRAPHS; DECISION MAKERS; DECISION PROBLEMS; ELECTRE; ELIMINATION AND CHOICE TRANSLATING REALITY METHOD; FUZZY DISTANCE; GROUP DECISION MAKING; INTUITIONISTIC FUZZY; INTUITIONISTIC FUZZY NUMBER; INTUITIONISTIC FUZZY SETS; LINGUISTIC VARIABLE; MULTI CRITERIA GROUP DECISION MAKING; MULTIPLE-CRITERIA EVALUATION; NEW DESIGN; NUMERICAL DATA; OUTRANKING RELATION; PAIR-WISE COMPARISON; SATISFIABILITY;

DATA HANDLING; DECISION MAKING; FLEXIBLE MANUFACTURING SYSTEMS; FORMAL LOGIC; FUZZY SETS;

NUMERICAL METHODS;

EID: 84870243920     PISSN: 0307904X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.apm.2012.04.033     Document Type: Article

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