Power average operators of trapezoidal intuitionistic fuzzy numbers and application to multi-attribute group decision making

Applied Mathematical Modelling

Volumn 37, Issue 6, 2013, Pages 4112-4126

  Wan, Shu ping ^a  

^a JIANGXI UNIVERSITY OF FINANCE AND ECONOMICS   (China)

Author keywords

Hausdorff metric; Multi attribute group decision making; Power average operator; Trapezoidal intuitionistic fuzzy number

Indexed keywords

ATTRIBUTE VALUES; AVERAGE OPERATOR; DECISION DATA; DECISION METHOD; DECISION-MAKING PROBLEM; EUCLIDEAN DISTANCE; GROUP DECISION; HAUSDORFF METRIC; INTUITIONISTIC FUZZY NUMBER; INTUITIONISTIC FUZZY SETS; MULTI-ATTRIBUTE GROUP DECISION MAKING; OPERATION LAW; ORDERED WEIGHTED AVERAGE OPERATORS; POWER HYBRIDS; REAL NUMBER;

FUZZY RULES;

DECISION MAKING;

EID: 84872613778     PISSN: 0307904X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.apm.2012.09.017     Document Type: Article

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