A Topsis-Based Approach for Prioritized Aggregation in Multi-Criteria Decision-Making Problems

Journal of Multi-Criteria Decision Analysis

Volumn 23, Issue 5-6, 2016, Pages 197-209

  Omar, Moataz Nabil ^a   Fayek, Aminah Robinson ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ALBERTA   (Canada)

Author keywords

aggregation properties; prioritized aggregation; prioritized OWA; TOPSIS

Indexed keywords

EID: 84956611197     PISSN: 10579214     EISSN: 10991360     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/mcda.1561     Document Type: Article

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