The uncertain probabilistic OWA distance operator and its application in group decision making

Applied Mathematical Modelling

Volumn 37, Issue 9, 2013, Pages 6266-6275

  Zeng, Shouzhen ^a   Merigó, José M ^b   Su, Weihua ^c  

^a ZHEJIANG WANLI UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BARCELONA   (Spain)

^c ZHEJIANG UNIVERSITY OF FINANCE AND ECONOMICS   (China)

Author keywords

Distance measures; Group decision making; OWA operator; Probability; Uncertainty

Indexed keywords

DISTANCE MEASURE; GROUP DECISION MAKING; GROUP DECISION MAKING PROBLEMS; ORDERED WEIGHTED AVERAGING; OWA OPERATORS; PROBABILISTIC DISTANCE; UNCERTAIN ENVIRONMENTS; UNCERTAINTY;

COMPUTER SIMULATION; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; PROBABILITY;

DECISION MAKING;

EID: 84875374935     PISSN: 0307904X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.apm.2013.01.022     Document Type: Article

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