Consistency and consensus models for group decision-making with uncertain 2-tuple linguistic preference relations

International Journal of Systems Science

Volumn 47, Issue 11, 2016, Pages 2572-2587

  Zhang, Zhen ^a   Guo, Chonghui ^a  

^a DALIAN UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (China)

Author keywords

2 tuple linguistic; Consensus; Consistency; Group decision making; Uncertain linguistic preference relation

Indexed keywords

ITERATIVE METHODS; LINGUISTICS;

2-TUPLE LINGUISTIC; CONSENSUS; CONSISTENCY; GROUP DECISION MAKING; UNCERTAIN LINGUISTIC;

DECISION MAKING;

EID: 84922387583     PISSN: 00207721     EISSN: 14645319     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/00207721.2014.999732     Document Type: Article

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