A multi-expert system for ranking patents: An approach based on fuzzy pay-off distributions and a TOPSIS-AHP framework

Expert Systems with Applications

Volumn 40, Issue 12, 2013, Pages 4749-4759

  Collan, Mikael ^a   Fedrizzi, Mario ^b   Luukka, Pasi ^a  

^a LAPPEENRANTA UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Finland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TRENTO   (Italy)

Author keywords

AHP; Consensus; Patents; Pay off method; Possibilistic moments; TOPSIS

Indexed keywords

ANALYTIC HIERARCHY PROCESS; ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE; DECISION MAKING; DECISION SUPPORT SYSTEMS; DISTRIBUTION FUNCTIONS; EXPERT SYSTEMS; HIERARCHICAL SYSTEMS; NUMERICAL METHODS;

CONSENSUS; PATENTS; PAY-OFF METHOD; POSSIBILISTIC MOMENTS; TOPSIS;

PATENTS AND INVENTIONS;

EID: 84885030135     PISSN: 09574174     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.eswa.2013.02.012     Document Type: Article

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