An interval neutrosophic linguistic multi-criteria group decision-making method and its application in selecting medical treatment options

Neural Computing and Applications

Volumn 28, Issue 9, 2017, Pages 2745-2765

  Ma, Yin xiang ^a   Wang, Jian qiang ^a   Wang, Jing ^a   Wu, Xiao hui ^a  

^a CENTRAL SOUTH UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Harmonic mean; Interval neutrosophic linguistic numbers; Medical treatment options; Multi criteria group decision making; Prioritized operators

Indexed keywords

AGGLOMERATION; COMPUTATIONAL LINGUISTICS; HARMONIC ANALYSIS; LINGUISTICS;

HARMONIC MEAN; INTERVAL NEUTROSOPHIC LINGUISTIC NUMBERS; MEDICAL TREATMENT; MULTI CRITERIA GROUP DECISION MAKING; PRIORITIZED OPERATOR;

DECISION MAKING;

EID: 84957611639     PISSN: 09410643     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00521-016-2203-1     Document Type: Article

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