A method based on PSO and granular computing of linguistic information to solve group decision making problems defined in heterogeneous contexts

European Journal of Operational Research

Volumn 230, Issue 3, 2013, Pages 624-633

  Cabrerizo, Francisco Javier ^a   Herrera Viedma, Enrique ^b   Pedrycz, Witold ^c,d  

^a UNIVERSIDAD NACIONAL DE EDUCACIÓN A DISTANCIA   (Spain)

^b UNIVERSITY OF GRANADA   (Spain)

^c UNIVERSITY OF ALBERTA   (Canada)

^d SYSTEMS RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Poland)

Author keywords

Consistency; Granular computing; Group decision making; Information granules; Linguistic information

Indexed keywords

COHERENT FRAMEWORKS; CONSISTENCY; GROUP DECISION MAKING; GROUP DECISION MAKING PROBLEMS; INFORMATION GRANULATION; LINGUISTIC INFORMATION; OPTIMIZATION PROBLEMS; PERFORMANCE INDICES;

DECISION MAKING; GRANULAR COMPUTING; GRANULATION; INFORMATION GRANULES; PARTICLE SWARM OPTIMIZATION (PSO);

LINGUISTICS;

EID: 84879504955     PISSN: 03772217     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ejor.2013.04.046     Document Type: Article

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