An outranking approach for multi-criteria decision-making problems with interval-valued neutrosophic sets

Neural Computing and Applications

Volumn 27, Issue 3, 2016, Pages 615-627

  Zhang, Hongyu ^a   Wang, Jianqiang ^a   Chen, Xiaohong ^a  

^a CENTRAL SOUTH UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

ELECTRE IV; Interval valued neutrosophic sets; Multi criteria decision making; Outranking

Indexed keywords

DECISION MAKING;

COMPARISON ANALYSIS; ELECTRE; INTERVAL NEUTROSOPHIC SETS; MULTI CRITERIA DECISION MAKING; MULTI-CRITERIA DECISION MAKING PROBLEMS; NEUTROSOPHIC SETS; OUTRANKING; OUTRANKING RELATION;

PROBLEM SOLVING;

EID: 84961362550     PISSN: 09410643     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00521-015-1882-3     Document Type: Article

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