Determining attribute weights to improve solution reliability and its application to selecting leading industries

Annals of Operations Research

Volumn 245, Issue 1-2, 2016, Pages 401-426

  Fu, Chao ^a,b   Xu, Dong Ling ^c  

^a HEFEI UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (China)

^b BEIJING UNIVERSITY OF POSTS AND TELECOMMUNICATIONS   (China)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MANCHESTER   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Decision analysis; Determination of attribute weights; Evidential reasoning; Multiple attribute decision making; Selecting leading industries; Solution reliability

Indexed keywords

EID: 84902947729     PISSN: 02545330     EISSN: 15729338     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10479-014-1657-8     Document Type: Article

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