Hesitant fuzzy information measures and their applications in multi-criteria decision making

International Journal of Systems Science

Volumn 47, Issue 1, 2016, Pages 62-76

  Hu, Junhua ^a   Zhang, Xiaolong ^a   Chen, Xiaohong ^a   Liu, Yongmei ^a  

^a CENTRAL SOUTH UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

distance measure; entropy measure; hesitant fuzzy sets; multi criteria decision making; similarity measure

Indexed keywords

DECISION MAKING; ENTROPY; FUZZY SETS; NUMERICAL METHODS;

DISTANCE MEASURE; ENTROPY MEASURE; HESITANT FUZZY SETS; MULTI CRITERIA DECISION MAKING; SIMILARITY MEASURE;

RISK ASSESSMENT;

EID: 84940462555     PISSN: 00207721     EISSN: 14645319     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/00207721.2015.1036476     Document Type: Article

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