Trust modeling based on a combination of fuzzy analytic hierarchy process and fuzzy VIKOR

Soft Computing

Volumn 20, Issue 1, 2016, Pages 399-421

  Ashtiani, Mehrdad ^a   Abdollahi Azgomi, Mohammad ^a  

^a IRAN UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Iran)

Author keywords

Fuzzy AHP; Fuzzy VIKOR; Multi criteria decision making (MCDM); Trust modeling

Indexed keywords

ANALYTIC HIERARCHY PROCESS; COMPUTATION THEORY; DECISION MAKING;

COMPUTATIONAL DOMAINS; CONFLICT RESOLUTION; EXPERIMENTAL EVALUATION; FUZZY AHP; FUZZY ANALYTIC HIERARCHY PROCESS; FUZZY VIKOR; MULTI-CRITERIA DECISION MAKING; TRUST MODELING;

FUZZY LOGIC;

EID: 84952981322     PISSN: 14327643     EISSN: 14337479     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00500-014-1516-1     Document Type: Article

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