A new method for group decision making with incomplete fuzzy preference relations

Knowledge-Based Systems

Volumn 73, Issue , 2015, Pages 111-123

  Meng, Fanyong ^a,b   Chen, Xiaohong ^a,c  

^a CENTRAL SOUTH UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b QINGDAO TECHNOLOGICAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

^c WUHAN UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Additive consistency; Analytic hierarchy process; Fuzzy preference relation; Goal programming model; Group decision making

Indexed keywords

ANALYTIC HIERARCHY PROCESS; ITERATIVE METHODS; LINEAR PROGRAMMING; MULTIOBJECTIVE OPTIMIZATION;

ADDITIVE CONSISTENCY; AGGREGATION OPERATOR; CONSISTENT FUZZY PREFERENCE RELATION; FUZZY PREFERENCE INFORMATION; FUZZY PREFERENCE RELATIONS; GOAL PROGRAMMING MODEL; GROUP DECISION MAKING; INCOMPLETE FUZZY PREFERENCE RELATION;

DECISION MAKING;

EID: 84915747480     PISSN: 09507051     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.knosys.2014.09.011     Document Type: Article

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