A new method for multiple criteria group decision making with incomplete weight information under linguistic environment

Applied Mathematical Modelling

Volumn 38, Issue 21-22, 2014, Pages 5256-5268

  Ju, Yanbing ^a  

^a BEIJING INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (China)

Author keywords

2 Tuple linguistic; Incomplete linguistic criteria weight; Multiple criteria group decision making (MCGDM); Weights of decision makers

Indexed keywords

LINGUISTICS;

2-TUPLE LINGUISTIC; CRITERIA WEIGHTS; DECISION MAKERS; GROUP DECISION MAKING; INCOMPLETE WEIGHT INFORMATIONS; LINGUISTIC ENVIRONMENT; LINGUISTIC INFORMATION; NEGATIVE-IDEAL SOLUTIONS;

DECISION MAKING;

EID: 84908500683     PISSN: 0307904X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.apm.2014.04.022     Document Type: Article

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