Method of multi-criteria group decision-making based on cloud aggregation operators with linguistic information

Information Sciences

Volumn 274, Issue , 2014, Pages 177-191

  Wang, Jian Qiang ^a   Peng, Lu ^a   Zhang, Hong Yu ^a   Chen, Xiao Hong ^a  

^a CENTRAL SOUTH UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Aggregation operator; Cloud model; Linguistic group decision making

Indexed keywords

CLOUD COMPUTING; LINGUISTICS; MATHEMATICAL OPERATORS;

AGGREGATION OPERATOR; ARITHMETIC AVERAGING; CLOUD MODELING; GROUP DECISION-MAKING; LINGUISTIC INFORMATION; LINGUISTIC VARIABLE; MULTI CRITERIA GROUP DECISION MAKING;

DECISION MAKING;

EID: 84899915166     PISSN: 00200255     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ins.2014.02.130     Document Type: Article

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