A multi-stage decision-making process for multiple attributes analysis under an interval-valued fuzzy environment

International Journal of Advanced Manufacturing Technology

Volumn 64, Issue 9-12, 2013, Pages 1263-1273

  Mousavi, S Meysam ^a   Vahdani, Behnam ^b   Tavakkoli Moghaddam, R ^a   Ebrahimnejad, S ^c   Amiri, M ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEHRAN   (Iran)

^b ISLAMIC AZAD UNIVERSITY   (Iran)

^c ISLAMIC AZAD UNIVERSITY   (Iran)

^d ALLAMEH TABATABA'I UNIVERSITY   (Iran)

Author keywords

Interval valued fuzzy set (IVFS); Multi stage decision making process; Multiple attributes analysis; Selection problems

Indexed keywords

APPLICATION EXAMPLES; DECISION MAKING PROCESS; FUZZY ENVIRONMENTS; INTERVAL-VALUED; INTERVAL-VALUED FUZZY SETS; LINGUISTIC TERMS; MULTI-STAGE; MULTIPLE ATTRIBUTES; PAIR-WISE COMPARISON; PERFORMANCE RATINGS; PRE ORDERINGS; SELECTION PROBLEMS; SEQUENTIAL APPLICATIONS; TRIANGULAR FUZZY NUMBERS;

INDUSTRIAL ENGINEERING; TECHNOLOGY;

FUZZY SETS;

EID: 84874337479     PISSN: 02683768     EISSN: 14333015     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00170-012-4084-5     Document Type: Article

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