A new method for deriving priority weights by extracting consistent numerical-valued matrices from interval-valued fuzzy judgement matrix

Information Sciences

Volumn 279, Issue , 2014, Pages 280-300

  Zhang, Feng ^a,b   Ignatius, Joshua ^a   Lim, Chee Peng ^c   Zhao, Yajun ^b  

^a SCHOOL OF PHYSICS   (Malaysia)

^b HEBEI UNIVERSITY   (China)

^c DEAKIN UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Consistency; Fuzzy judgment matrix; Pairwise comparison matrix; Priority weight vector

Indexed keywords

NONLINEAR PROGRAMMING;

CONSISTENCY; CONSISTENT MATRICES; DEGREE OF UNCERTAINTY; FUZZY JUDGMENT MATRIXES; NONLINEAR PROGRAMMING MODEL; PAIRWISE COMPARISON MATRICES; PRIORITY WEIGHTS; SIMILARITY MEASURE;

FUZZY SETS;

EID: 84901835951     PISSN: 00200255     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ins.2014.03.120     Document Type: Article

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