Hesitant fuzzy QUALIFLEX approach with a signed distance-based comparison method for multiple criteria decision analysis

Expert Systems with Applications

Volumn 42, Issue 2, 2015, Pages 873-884

  Zhang, Xiaolu ^a   Xu, Zeshui ^b  

^a Southeast University   (China)

^b Sichuan University   (China)

Author keywords

Decision analysis; Hesitant fuzzy information; Multi criteria decision making; Outranking method; QUALIFLEX

Indexed keywords

COMPARISON METHODS; DISTANCE-BASED; FUZZY INFORMATION; MULTI CRITERIA DECISION MAKING; MULTIPLE CRITERIA DECISION ANALYSIS; OUTRANKING METHODS; QUALIFLEX;

DECISION THEORY;

EID: 84907483680     PISSN: 09574174     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.eswa.2014.08.056     Document Type: Article

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