Projection method for multiple criteria group decision making with incomplete weight information in linguistic setting

Applied Mathematical Modelling

Volumn 37, Issue 20-21, 2013, Pages 9031-9040

  Ju, Yanbing ^a   Wang, Aihua ^b  

^a BEIJING INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (China)

^b PEKING UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Incompletely known criteria weight; Linguistic variable; Multiple criteria group decision making; Projection method

Indexed keywords

CRITERIA WEIGHTS; DEGREE OF SIMILARITY; GROUP DECISION MAKING; INCOMPLETE WEIGHT INFORMATIONS; LINGUISTIC VARIABLE; NON-LINEAR OPTIMIZATION; PROJECTION METHOD; TECHNIQUE FOR ORDER PREFERENCE BY SIMILARITY TO IDEAL SOLUTIONS;

DECISION MAKING;

LINGUISTICS;

EID: 84884126074     PISSN: 0307904X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.apm.2013.04.027     Document Type: Article

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