A new decision-making method by incomplete preferences based on evidence distance

Knowledge-Based Systems

Volumn 56, Issue , 2014, Pages 264-272

  Huang, Shiyan ^a   Su, Xiaoyan ^b   Hu, Yong ^c   Mahadevan, Sankaran ^d   Deng, Yong ^a,b,d  

^a SOUTHWEST UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b SHANGHAI JIAO TONG UNIVERSITY   (China)

^c GUANGDONG UNIVERSITY OF FOREIGN STUDIES   (China)

^d VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Analytic hierarchy process; Decision making; Dempster Shafer evidence theory; Evidence distance; Incomplete preferences; Pignistic probability transformation

Indexed keywords

DECISION-MAKING METHOD; DEMPSTER SHAFER EVIDENCE THEORY; EVIDENCE DISTANCE; HUMAN ASSESSMENT; INCOMPLETE INFORMATION; INCOMPLETE PREFERENCES; PIGNISTIC PROBABILITY TRANSFORMATIONS; UNCERTAIN ENVIRONMENTS;

ANALYTIC HIERARCHY PROCESS; HIERARCHICAL SYSTEMS;

DECISION MAKING; ANALYTIC HIERARCHY PROCESS;

EID: 84892438659     PISSN: 09507051     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.knosys.2013.11.019     Document Type: Article

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