A maximizing consensus approach for alternative selection based on uncertain linguistic preference relations

Computers and Industrial Engineering

Volumn 64, Issue 4, 2013, Pages 999-1008

  Xu, Jiuping ^a   Wu, Zhibin ^a  

^a SICHUAN UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

2 Tuple representation model; Consensus; Group decision making; Linguistic variable; Uncertain linguistic preference relation

Indexed keywords

2-TUPLE REPRESENTATIONS; CONSENSUS; GROUP DECISION MAKING; LINGUISTIC VARIABLE; UNCERTAIN LINGUISTIC;

ALGORITHMS;

LINGUISTICS;

EID: 84876143451     PISSN: 03608352     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.cie.2013.01.009     Document Type: Article

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