Consensus-Based Group Decision Making Under Multi-granular Unbalanced 2-Tuple Linguistic Preference Relations

Group Decision and Negotiation

Volumn 24, Issue 2, 2015, Pages 217-242

  Dong, Yucheng ^a   Li, Cong Cong ^a   Xu, Yinfeng ^a   Gu, Xin ^a  

^a Sichuan University   (China)

Author keywords

Consensus; Group decision making; Multi granular unbalanced linguistic term sets; The 2 tuple linguistic representation model; Transformation function

Indexed keywords

EID: 84897173566     PISSN: 09262644     EISSN: 15729907     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10726-014-9387-5     Document Type: Article

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