Simplified Neutrosophic Linguistic Multi-criteria Group Decision-Making Approach to Green Product Development

Group Decision and Negotiation

Volumn 26, Issue 3, 2017, Pages 597-627

  Tian, Zhang peng ^a   Wang, Jing ^a   Wang, Jian qiang ^a   Zhang, Hong yu ^a  

^a CENTRAL SOUTH UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Green product development; Multi criteria group decision making; Power aggregation operator; QUALIFLEX; Simplified neutrosophic linguistic set

Indexed keywords

EID: 84964388751     PISSN: 09262644     EISSN: 15729907     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10726-016-9479-5     Document Type: Article

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