Multi-valued Neutrosophic Sets and Power Aggregation Operators with Their Applications in Multi-criteria Group Decision-making Problems

International Journal of Computational Intelligence Systems

Volumn 8, Issue 2, 2015, Pages 345-363

  Peng, Juanjuan ^b   Wang, Jian qiang ^b   Wu, Xiao hui ^a,b   Wang, Jing ^b   Chen, Xiao hong ^b  

^a HUBEI UNIVERSITY OF AUTOMOTIVE TECHNOLOGY   (China)

^b CENTRAL SOUTH UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Multi criteria group decision making; multi valued neutrosophic sets; power aggregation operators

Indexed keywords

FUZZY SETS; MATHEMATICAL OPERATORS;

AGGREGATION OPERATOR; ATANASSOV'S INTUITIONISTIC FUZZY SETS; COMPARISON ANALYSIS; COMPARISON METHODS; EINSTEIN OPERATIONS; HESITANT FUZZY SETS; MULTI CRITERIA GROUP DECISION MAKING; NEUTROSOPHIC SETS;

DECISION MAKING;

EID: 84920087585     PISSN: 18756891     EISSN: 18756883     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/18756891.2015.1001957     Document Type: Article

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