Research on AHP with interval-valued intuitionistic fuzzy sets and its application in multi-criteria decision making problems

Applied Mathematical Modelling

Volumn 37, Issue 24, 2013, Pages 9898-9906

  Wu, Jian ^a   Huang, Hai bin ^a   Cao, Qing wei ^a  

^a ZHEJIANG NORMAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

AHP; Interval valued intuitionistic fuzzy sets; Multi criterion decision making

Indexed keywords

AHP; INTERVAL-VALUED INTUITIONISTIC FUZZY SETS; INTUITIONISTIC FUZZY; INTUITIONISTIC FUZZY PREFERENCE RELATIONS; MULTI-CRITERIA DECISION MAKING; MULTI-CRITERIA DECISION MAKING PROBLEMS; MULTI-CRITERION DECISION MAKINGS; POSSIBILITY DEGREE;

DECISION MAKING; HIERARCHICAL SYSTEMS; TRANSFER MATRIX METHOD;

FUZZY SETS;

EID: 84887404497     PISSN: 0307904X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.apm.2013.05.035     Document Type: Article

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