Consensus Building in a Local Context for the AHP-GDM With the Individual Numerical Scale and Prioritization Method

IEEE Transactions on Fuzzy Systems

Volumn 23, Issue 2, 2015, Pages 354-368

  Dong, Yucheng ^a   Fan, Zhi Ping ^b   Yu, Shui ^c  

^a Department of Management Science and System Science   (China)

^b NORTHEASTERN UNIVERSITY   (China)

^c DEAKIN UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

2 tuple linguistic representation model; Analytic hierarchy process (AHP); consensus; group decision making (GDM); numerical scale; prioritization method

Indexed keywords

ANALYTIC HIERARCHY PROCESS; COMPUTATIONAL LINGUISTICS; DECISION MAKING; HIERARCHICAL SYSTEMS; LINGUISTICS; NUMERICAL MODELS;

2-TUPLE LINGUISTIC REPRESENTATION MODELS; ANALYTIC HIERARCHY PROCESS (AHP); CONSENSUS; GROUP DECISION MAKING; NUMERICAL SCALE; PRIORITIZATION;

NUMERICAL METHODS;

EID: 84905174451     PISSN: 10636706     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TFUZZ.2014.2312974     Document Type: Article

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