An outranking approach for multi-criteria decision-making problems with simplified neutrosophic sets

Applied Soft Computing Journal

Volumn 25, Issue , 2014, Pages 336-346

  Peng, Juan Juan ^a,b   Wang, Jian Qiang ^a   Zhang, Hong Yu ^a   Chen, Xiao Hong ^a  

^a CENTRAL SOUTH UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b HUBEI UNIVERSITY OF AUTOMOTIVE TECHNOLOGY   (China)

Author keywords

Multi criteria decision making; Outranking relations; Simplified neutrosophic sets

Indexed keywords

MULTI CRITERIA DECISION MAKING; NEUTROSOPHIC SETS; OUTRANKING RELATION; COMPARISON ANALYSIS; MEMBERSHIP DEGREES; MULTI-CRITERIA DECISION MAKING PROBLEMS; RANKING APPROACH; RELATIONAL PROPERTIES;

PROBLEM SOLVING;

DECISION MAKING;

EID: 84908352028     PISSN: 15684946     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.asoc.2014.08.070     Document Type: Article

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