A complex proportional assessment method for group decision making in an interval-valued intuitionistic fuzzy environment

Technological and Economic Development of Economy

Volumn 19, Issue 1, 2013, Pages 22-37

  Razavi Hajiagha, Seyed Hossein ^a   Hashemi, Shide Sadat ^a   Zavadskas, Edmundas Kazimieras ^b  

^a Institute for Trade Studies and Research   (Iran)

^b VILNIUS GEDIMINAS TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY   (Lithuania)

Author keywords

COPRAS; interval valued intuitionistic fuzzy sets; multiple criteria decision making; uncertainty

Indexed keywords

EID: 84875923169     PISSN: 20294913     EISSN: 20294921     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3846/20294913.2012.762953     Document Type: Article

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