Continuous Ordered Weighted Distance Measure and Its Application to Multiple Attribute Group Decision Making

Group Decision and Negotiation

Volumn 22, Issue 4, 2013, Pages 739-758

  Zhou, Ligang ^a   Chen, Huayou ^a   Liu, Jinpei ^b  

^a ANHUI UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b TIANJIN UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

COWA operator; Distance measure; Group decision making; OWA operator

Indexed keywords

EID: 84877922377     PISSN: 09262644     EISSN: 15729907     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10726-012-9289-3     Document Type: Article

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