Simplified neutrosophic sets and their applications in multi-criteria group decision-making problems

International Journal of Systems Science

Volumn 47, Issue 10, 2016, Pages 2342-2358

  Peng, Juan Juan ^a,b   Wang, Jian Qiang ^a   Wang, Jing ^a   Zhang, Hong Yu ^a   Chen, Xiao Hong ^a  

^a CENTRAL SOUTH UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b HUBEI UNIVERSITY OF AUTOMOTIVE TECHNOLOGY   (China)

Author keywords

aggregation operators; multi criteria group decision making (MCGDM); simplified neutrosophic sets (SNSs)

Indexed keywords

FUZZY SETS; MATHEMATICAL OPERATORS;

AGGREGATION OPERATOR; COMPARISON METHODS; INCONSISTENT INFORMATION; INTUITIONISTIC FUZZY NUMBER; INTUITIONISTIC FUZZY SETS; MULTI CRITERIA GROUP DECISION MAKING; NEUTROSOPHIC SETS; REAL-WORLD;

DECISION MAKING;

EID: 84961205753     PISSN: 00207721     EISSN: 14645319     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/00207721.2014.994050     Document Type: Article

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