A Consensus Based Method for Multi-criteria Group Decision Making Under Uncertain Linguistic Setting

Group Decision and Negotiation

Volumn 23, Issue 1, 2014, Pages 127-148

  Xu, Jiuping ^a   Wu, Zhibin ^a   Zhang, Yuan ^a  

^a SICHUAN UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Consensus; Decision support model; Multi criteria group decision making (MCGDM); Superiority index; Uncertain linguistic variable

Indexed keywords

EID: 84891659743     PISSN: 09262644     EISSN: 15729907     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10726-012-9310-x     Document Type: Article

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