Grouping, overlap, and generalized bientropic functions for fuzzy modeling of pairwise comparisons

IEEE Transactions on Fuzzy Systems

Volumn 20, Issue 3, 2012, Pages 405-415

  Bustince, Humberto ^a   Pagola, Miguel ^a   Mesiar, Radko ^b,c   Hüllermeier, Eyke ^d   Herrera, Francisco ^e  

^a PUBLIC UNIVERSITY OF NAVARRE   (Spain)

^b SLOVAK UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Slovakia)

^c INSTITUTE OF MATHEMATICS   (Czech Republic)

^d PHILIPPS UNIVERSITY MARBURG   (Germany)

^e UNIVERSITY OF GRANADA   (Spain)

Author keywords

Decision making; Generalized bientropic function; Grouping function; Incomparability; Overlap function; Pairwise comparison; Preference relations

Indexed keywords

AGGREGATION FUNCTIONS; FUZZY MODELING; FUZZY PREFERENCE MODELING; INCOMPARABILITY; OVERLAP FUNCTIONS; PAIR-WISE COMPARISON; PREFERENCE RANKING; PREFERENCE RELATION;

ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE; DECISION MAKING;

FUZZY SETS;

EID: 84881359430     PISSN: 10636706     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TFUZZ.2011.2173581     Document Type: Article

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