Multi-granular unbalanced linguistic distribution assessments with interval symbolic proportions

Knowledge-Based Systems

Volumn 82, Issue , 2015, Pages 139-151

  Dong, Yucheng ^a   Wu, Yuzhu ^a   Zhang, Hengjie ^a   Zhang, Guiqing ^b  

^a Sichuan University   (China)

^b XI'AN JIAOTONG UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Distribution assessments; Linguistic 2 tuples; Multi granular linguistic contexts; Multiple attribute group decision making; Unbalanced linguistic term set

Indexed keywords

DECISION MAKING; STATISTICAL METHODS;

2-TUPLES; DISTRIBUTION ASSESSMENTS; LINGUISTIC TERMS; MULTI-GRANULAR LINGUISTIC CONTEXTS; MULTIPLE ATTRIBUTE GROUP DECISION MAKINGS (MAGDM);

LINGUISTICS;

EID: 84928046385     PISSN: 09507051     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.knosys.2015.03.003     Document Type: Article

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