A decision support model for group decision making with hesitant multiplicative preference relations

Information Sciences

Volumn 282, Issue , 2014, Pages 136-166

  Zhang, Zhiming ^a,b   Wu, Chong ^a  

^a HARBIN INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (China)

^b HEBEI UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Consensus; Consistency; Hesitant fuzzy set (HFS); Hesitant multiplicative preference relation (HMPR); Hesitant multiplicative set (HMS)

Indexed keywords

DECISION SUPPORT SYSTEMS; FUZZY SETS;

CONSENSUS; CONSISTENCY; HESITANT FUZZY SET (HFS); HESITANT MULTIPLICATIVE SET (HMS); MULTIPLICATIVE PREFERENCE RELATIONS;

DECISION MAKING;

EID: 84905185257     PISSN: 00200255     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ins.2014.05.057     Document Type: Article

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