The ordinal consistency of a fuzzy preference relation

Information Sciences

Volumn 224, Issue , 2013, Pages 152-164

  Xu, Yejun ^a   Patnayakuni, Ravi ^b   Wang, Huimin ^a  

^a HOHAI UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ALABAMA IN HUNTSVILLE   (United States)

Author keywords

Cycle; Fuzzy preference relation; Ordinal consistency; Rationality; Weak transitivity

Indexed keywords

CYCLE; FUZZY PREFERENCE RELATIONS; ORDINAL CONSISTENCY; RATIONALITY; WEAK TRANSITIVITY;

ALGORITHMS; DECISION MAKING; FUZZY SETS; GRAPH THEORY;

FUZZY LOGIC;

EID: 84870995366     PISSN: 00200255     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ins.2012.10.035     Document Type: Article

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