TOPSIS-based consensus model for group decision-making with incomplete interval fuzzy preference relations

IEEE Transactions on Cybernetics

Volumn 44, Issue 8, 2014, Pages 1283-1294

  Liu, Fang ^a,b   Zhang, Wei Guo ^a  

^a SOUTH CHINA UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (China)

^b GUANGXI UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Consistency; goal programming model; group decision making; incomplete interval fuzzy preference relation; similarity degree; TOPSIS

Indexed keywords

LINEAR PROGRAMMING; MULTIOBJECTIVE OPTIMIZATION; VIRTUAL CORPORATION;

CONSISTENCY; FUZZY PREFERENCE RELATIONS; GOAL PROGRAMMING MODEL; GROUP DECISION-MAKING; SIMILARITY DEGREE; TOPSIS;

DECISION MAKING;

ALGORITHM; DECISION MAKING; FUZZY LOGIC; INFORMATION SCIENCE; PROCEDURES; THEORETICAL MODEL;

ALGORITHMS; DECISION MAKING; FUZZY LOGIC; INFORMATION SCIENCE; MODELS, THEORETICAL;

EID: 84904657077     PISSN: 21682267     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TCYB.2013.2282037     Document Type: Article

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