An Uncertain Linguistic Multi-criteria Group Decision-Making Method Based on a Cloud Model

Group Decision and Negotiation

Volumn 24, Issue 1, 2015, Pages 171-192

  Wang, Jian Qiang ^a   Peng, Juan Juan ^a,b   Zhang, Hong Yu ^a   Liu, Tao ^a   Chen, Xiao Hong ^a  

^a CENTRAL SOUTH UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b HUBEI UNIVERSITY OF AUTOMOTIVE TECHNOLOGY   (China)

Author keywords

Cloud model; Interval integrated cloud; Multi criteria group decision making (MCGDM); Uncertainty linguistic

Indexed keywords

EID: 84896691234     PISSN: 09262644     EISSN: 15729907     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10726-014-9385-7     Document Type: Article

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