Failure Mode and Effect Analysis under Uncertainty: An Integrated Multiple Criteria Decision Making Approach

IEEE Transactions on Reliability

Volumn 65, Issue 3, 2016, Pages 1380-1392

  Liu, Hu Chen ^a,b   You, Jian Xin ^a,b   Li, Ping ^b,c   Su, Qiang ^b  

^a SHANGHAI UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b TONGJI UNIVERSITY   (China)

^c SHANGHAI UNIVERSITY OF MEDICINE AND HEALTH SCIENCES   (China)

Author keywords

Failure mode and effect analysis (FMEA); hesitant 2 tuple linguistic term sets; incomplete weight information; QUALIFLEX approach

Indexed keywords

COMPUTATIONAL LINGUISTICS; DECISION MAKING; FAILURE MODES; LINGUISTICS; OPTIMIZATION; RELIABILITY ANALYSIS; RISK ASSESSMENT; UNCERTAINTY ANALYSIS;

2-TUPLE LINGUISTIC; COMPARISON METHODS; FAILURE MODE AND EFFECT ANALYSIS; GREY RELATIONAL ANALYSIS; INCOMPLETE WEIGHT INFORMATIONS; MULTIPLE CRITERIA DECISION MAKING; MULTIPLE-OBJECTIVE OPTIMIZATION; RISK PRIORITY NUMBER;

FAILURE ANALYSIS;

EID: 84976519013     PISSN: 00189529     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TR.2016.2570567     Document Type: Article

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