An efficient decision making approach in incomplete soft set

Applied Mathematical Modelling

Volumn 38, Issue 7-8, 2014, Pages 2141-2150

  Kong, Zhi ^a   Zhang, Guodong ^a   Wang, Lifu ^a   Wu, Zhaoxia ^a   Qi, Shiqing ^a   Wang, Haifang ^a  

^a USA   (China)

Author keywords

Choice value; Incomplete information; Simplify probability; Soft set; Weighted average

Indexed keywords

DECISION MAKING; PROBABILITY;

CHOICE VALUE; COMPARISON RESULT; INCOMPLETE INFORMATION; INCOMPLETE INFORMATION SYSTEMS; PROBABILITY APPROACH; SOFT SETS; WEIGHTED AVERAGES;

SET THEORY;

EID: 84895925596     PISSN: 0307904X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.apm.2013.10.009     Document Type: Article

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