Multi-attribute decision analysis under a linguistic hesitant fuzzy environment

Information Sciences

Volumn 267, Issue , 2014, Pages 287-305

  Meng, Fanyong ^a,b   Chen, Xiaohong ^a   Zhang, Qiang ^c  

^a CENTRAL SOUTH UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b QINGDAO TECHNOLOGICAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

^c BEIJING INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (China)

Author keywords

Decision analysis; Hybrid aggregation operator; Linguistic hesitant fuzzy set; Shapley function

Indexed keywords

DECISION MAKING; DECISION THEORY; FUZZY SETS; MATHEMATICAL OPERATORS; STATISTICAL METHODS;

AGGREGATION OPERATOR; FUZZY ENVIRONMENTS; FUZZY MEASURES; HESITANT FUZZY SETS; MULTI-ATTRIBUTE DECISION ANALYSIS; OPERATIONAL LAWS; SHAPLEY FUNCTION; WEIGHTED AVERAGING;

LINGUISTICS;

EID: 84896398663     PISSN: 00200255     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ins.2014.02.012     Document Type: Article

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