A method based on shape-similarity for detecting similar opinions in group decision-making

Information Sciences

Volumn 258, Issue , 2014, Pages 291-311

  Tapia Rosero, A ^a,b   Bronselaer, A ^b   De Tre G ^b  

^a ESCUELA SUPERIOR POLITÉCNICA DEL LITORAL   (Ecuador)

^b GHENT UNIVERSITY   (Belgium)

Author keywords

Group decision making; Linguistic term; Similarity measure

Indexed keywords

EXPERT OPINION; GROUP DECISION-MAKING; LINGUISTIC TERMS; PREFERENCE LEVEL; RELATIVE LENGTH; RIGHT SPREADS; SHAPE CHARACTERISTICS; SIMILARITY MEASURE;

DECISION MAKING;

MEMBERSHIP FUNCTIONS;

EID: 84889086264     PISSN: 00200255     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ins.2013.09.029     Document Type: Article

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