TOPSIS for hesitant fuzzy linguistic term sets

International Journal of Intelligent Systems

Volumn 28, Issue 12, 2013, Pages 1162-1171

  Beg, Ismat ^a   Rashid, Tabasam ^b  

^a LAHORE SCHOOL OF ECONOMICS   (Pakistan)

^b NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF COMPUTER AND EMERGING SCIENCES   (Pakistan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DECISION MAKERS; HESITANT FUZZY LINGUISTIC TERM SETS;

ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE; SOFTWARE ENGINEERING;

LINGUISTICS;

EID: 84885951008     PISSN: 08848173     EISSN: 1098111X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/int.21623     Document Type: Article

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