An approach to consensus measurement of linguistic preference relations in multi-attribute group decision making and application

Omega (United Kingdom)

Volumn 51, Issue , 2015, Pages 83-92

  Sun, Bingzhen ^a   Ma, Weimin ^b  

^a LANZHOU JIAOTONG UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b TONGJI UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Consensus measurement; Degree of similarity; Group decision making; Linguistic preference relation; Measurement

Indexed keywords

LINGUISTICS;

CONSENSUS MEASUREMENT; DEGREE OF SIMILARITY; GROUP DECISION MAKING; INDIVIDUAL PREFERENCE; LINGUISTIC INFORMATION; LINGUISTIC PREFERENCE INFORMATION; LINGUISTIC PREFERENCE RELATION; MEASUREMENTS OF; MULTI-ATTRIBUTES; PREFERENCE RELATION;

DECISION MAKING;

EID: 84908005845     PISSN: 03050483     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.omega.2014.09.006     Document Type: Article

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