A multi-criteria decision-making method based on triangular intuitionistic fuzzy preference information

Intelligent Automation and Soft Computing

Volumn 22, Issue 3, 2016, Pages 473-482

  Wang, Chao Hui ^a   Wang, Jian Qiang ^b  

^a HUNAN UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (China)

^b CENTRAL SOUTH UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

mathematical programming; Multi criteria decision making; triangular intuitionistic fuzzy numbers; triangular intuitionistic fuzzy preference relation

Indexed keywords

EID: 84947279091     PISSN: 10798587     EISSN: 2326005X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/10798587.2015.1095418     Document Type: Article

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