Dual hesitant fuzzy multi-criteria decision making and its application to teaching quality assessment

Journal of Intelligent and Fuzzy Systems

Volumn 27, Issue 4, 2014, Pages 1679-1688

  Yu, De Jian ^a,b   Li, Deng Feng ^b  

^a ZHEJIANG UNIVERSITY OF FINANCE AND ECONOMICS   (China)

^b FUZHOU UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Dual hesitant fuzzy set; generalized dual hesitant fuzzy weighted averaging operator; multi criteria decision making; teaching quality assessment

Indexed keywords

FUZZY SETS; MATHEMATICAL OPERATORS; STATISTICAL METHODS;

AGGREGATION OPERATOR; FUZZY - MULTI CRITERIA DECISION MAKING; INCOMPLETE INFORMATION; MATHEMATICAL APPROACH; MULTI CRITERIA DECISION MAKING; ORDERED WEIGHTED AVERAGING OPERATOR; TEACHING QUALITY; WEIGHTED AVERAGING;

DECISION MAKING;

EID: 84907818206     PISSN: 10641246     EISSN: 18758967     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3233/IFS-141134     Document Type: Article

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