A Neutrosophic Normal Cloud and Its Application in Decision-Making

Cognitive Computation

Volumn 8, Issue 4, 2016, Pages 649-669

  Zhang, Hong yu ^a   Ji, Pu ^a   Wang, Jian qiang ^a   Chen, Xiao hong ^a  

^a CENTRAL SOUTH UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Aggregation operator; Backward cloud generator; Multi criteria group decision making; Neutrosophic normal cloud (NNC)

Indexed keywords

MATHEMATICAL OPERATORS;

AGGREGATION OPERATOR; CLOUD GENERATORS; COMPARATIVE STUDIES; CUSTOMER EVALUATION; EMPIRICAL CASE STUDIES; MULTI CRITERIA GROUP DECISION MAKING; NEUTROSOPHIC NORMAL CLOUD (NNC); PRACTICAL PROBLEMS;

DECISION MAKING;

EID: 84961848732     PISSN: 18669956     EISSN: 18669964     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s12559-016-9394-8     Document Type: Article

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