Optimal consensus models for group decision making under linguistic preference relations

International Transactions in Operational Research

Volumn 23, Issue 6, 2016, Pages 1201-1228

  Xu, Yejun ^a   Sun, Hao ^b   Wang, Huimin ^a  

^a HOHAI UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b QINGDAO UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

consensus; decision analysis; group decision making; linguistic distance; linguistic preference relations

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; COMPUTATIONAL LINGUISTICS; DECISION THEORY; ITERATIVE METHODS; LINGUISTICS;

CONSENSUS; CONSENSUS MODELS; GROUP DECISION MAKING; ITERATIVE ALGORITHM; LARGEST DEVIATION; LINGUISTIC DISTANCES; LINGUISTIC PREFERENCE RELATION; MODEL AND ALGORITHMS;

DECISION MAKING;

EID: 84979256234     PISSN: 09696016     EISSN: 14753995     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/itor.12154     Document Type: Article

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