An application of soft computing technique in group decision making under interval-valued intuitionistic fuzzy environment

Applied Soft Computing Journal

Volumn 13, Issue 5, 2013, Pages 2490-2503

  Yue, Zhongliang ^a   Jia, Yuying ^a  

^a GUANGDONG OCEAN UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Extended TOPSIS method; Group decision making; Ideal decision; Interval valued intuitionistic fuzzy number; Weight of decision maker

Indexed keywords

AGGREGATES; FUZZY RULES; FUZZY SETS; NUMERICAL METHODS; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; SOFT COMPUTING;

EXTENDED TOPSIS; GROUP DECISION MAKING; IDEAL DECISION; INTERVAL-VALUED INTUITIONISTIC FUZZY NUMBER; WEIGHT OF DECISION MAKERS;

DECISION MAKING;

EID: 84880149540     PISSN: 15684946     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.asoc.2012.11.045     Document Type: Article

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