Managing incomplete preference relations in decision making: A review and future trends

Information Sciences

Volumn 302, Issue , 2015, Pages 14-32

  Urena R ^a   Chiclana, F ^b   Morente Molinera, J A ^a   Herrera Viedma, E ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GRANADA   (Spain)

^b DE MONTFORT UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Consistency; Fuzzy preference relation; Group decision making; Incomplete information; Uncertainty

Indexed keywords

ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE; SOFTWARE ENGINEERING;

CONSISTENCY; FUZZY PREFERENCE RELATIONS; GROUP DECISION MAKING; INCOMPLETE INFORMATION; UNCERTAINTY;

DECISION MAKING;

EID: 84922608839     PISSN: 00200255     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ins.2014.12.061     Document Type: Article

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