A Multi-Criteria Decision-Making Method Based on Heronian Mean Operators under a Linguistic Hesitant Fuzzy Environment

Asia-Pacific Journal of Operational Research

Volumn 32, Issue 5, 2015, Pages

  Yu, Su Min ^a   Zhou, Huan ^a   Chen, Xiao Hong ^a   Wang, Jian Qiang ^a  

^a CENTRAL SOUTH UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

arithmetic Heronian mean operator; geometric Heronian mean operator; linguistic hesitant fuzzy sets; Multi criteria decision making

Indexed keywords

FUZZY SETS; GEOMETRY; LINGUISTICS;

COMPARISON ANALYSIS; COMPARISON METHODS; FUZZY ARITHMETICS; FUZZY ENVIRONMENTS; HERONIAN MEANS; HESITANT FUZZY SETS; MULTI CRITERIA DECISION MAKING; MULTI-CRITERIA DECISION MAKING METHODS;

DECISION MAKING;

EID: 84945199500     PISSN: 02175959     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1142/S0217595915500359     Document Type: Article

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