Subjective and objective information in linguistic multi-criteria group decision making

European Journal of Operational Research

Volumn 248, Issue 2, 2016, Pages 522-531

  Merigó, José M ^a,b   Palacios Marqués, Daniel ^c   Zeng, Shouzhen ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MANCHESTER   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CHILE   (Chile)

^c UNIVERSITAT POLITÈCNICA DE VALÈNCIA   (Spain)

^d NINGBO UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Group decision making; Linguistic information; Probability; Quasi arithmetic mean; Weighted average

Indexed keywords

COMPUTATIONAL LINGUISTICS; LINGUISTICS; MATHEMATICAL OPERATORS; PROBABILITY; STATISTICAL METHODS;

DECISION-MAKING SYSTEMS; GROUP DECISION MAKING; LINGUISTIC AGGREGATION OPERATORS; LINGUISTIC INFORMATION; LINGUISTIC WEIGHTED AVERAGE; MULTI CRITERIA GROUP DECISION MAKING; QUASIARITHMETIC MEANS; WEIGHTED AVERAGES;

DECISION MAKING;

EID: 84942295244     PISSN: 03772217     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ejor.2015.06.063     Document Type: Article

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