Multi-criteria outranking approach with hesitant fuzzy sets

OR Spectrum

Volumn 36, Issue 4, 2014, Pages 1001-1019

  Wang, Jian Qiang ^a   Wang, Dan Dan ^a   Zhang, Hong yu ^a   Chen, Xiao Hong ^a  

^a CENTRAL SOUTH UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Dominance relations; Hesitant fuzzy sets; Multi criteria decision making; Outranking relations

Indexed keywords

EID: 84907682552     PISSN: 01716468     EISSN: 14366304     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00291-013-0354-3     Document Type: Article

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