A novel SIR method for multiple attributes group decision making problem under hesitant fuzzy environment

Journal of Intelligent and Fuzzy Systems

Volumn 26, Issue 5, 2014, Pages 2119-2130

  Ma, Zu Jun ^a   Zhang, Nian ^a   Dai, Ying ^a  

^a SOUTHWEST JIAOTONG UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

hesitant fuzzy set; interval valued hesitant fuzzy set; Multiple attributes group decision making; PROMETHEE method; SIR method

Indexed keywords

FUZZY SETS; NUMERICAL METHODS;

COMPARATIVE ANALYSIS; FUZZY ENVIRONMENTS; FUZZY GROUP DECISION MAKING; INTERVAL-VALUED; MULTIPLE ATTRIBUTES; MULTIPLE ATTRIBUTES GROUP DECISION MAKINGS; PROMETHEE METHOD; SIR METHOD;

DECISION MAKING;

EID: 84901796046     PISSN: 10641246     EISSN: 18758967     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3233/IFS-130887     Document Type: Article

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