Measuring consistency of linguistic preference relations: A 2-tuple linguistic approach

Soft Computing

Volumn 17, Issue 11, 2013, Pages 2117-2130

  Dong, Yucheng ^a   Hong, Wei Chiang ^b   Xu, Yinfeng ^a  

^a Department of Management Science and System Science   (China)

^b ORIENTAL INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

Consistency; Linguistic preference relation; The 2 tuple fuzzy linguistic representation model

Indexed keywords

2-TUPLE FUZZY LINGUISTIC REPRESENTATIONS; 2-TUPLE LINGUISTIC; CONSISTENCY; CONSISTENCY DEGREE; DECISION-MAKING PROBLEM; INDIVIDUAL DIFFERENCES; LINGUISTIC PREFERENCE RELATION;

ALGORITHMS;

LINGUISTICS;

EID: 84885937674     PISSN: 14327643     EISSN: 14337479     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00500-013-1031-9     Document Type: Article

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