A granulation of linguistic information in AHP decision-making problems

Information Fusion

Volumn 17, Issue 1, 2014, Pages 93-101

  Pedrycz, Witold ^a,b,c   Song, Mingli ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ALBERTA   (Canada)

^b KING ABDULAZIZ UNIVERSITY   (Saudi Arabia)

^c SYSTEMS RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Poland)

Author keywords

AHP method; Decision making; Granular computing; Information granules; Linguistic evaluation; Membership function estimation; Particle swarm optimization (PSO)

Indexed keywords

AHP METHOD; ANALYTIC HIERARCHY PROCESS (AHP); DECISION-MAKING PROBLEM; GROUP DECISION-MAKING MODELS; INFORMATION GRANULATION; LINGUISTIC INFORMATION; OPTIMIZATION FRAMEWORK; OPTIMIZATION PROBLEMS;

GRANULAR COMPUTING; GRANULATION; HIERARCHICAL SYSTEMS; INFORMATION GRANULES; LINGUISTICS; PARTICLE SWARM OPTIMIZATION (PSO);

DECISION MAKING;

EID: 84888305716     PISSN: 15662535     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.inffus.2011.09.003     Document Type: Article

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