Cross-Entropy and Prioritized Aggregation Operator with Simplified Neutrosophic Sets and Their Application in Multi-Criteria Decision-Making Problems

International Journal of Fuzzy Systems

Volumn 18, Issue 6, 2016, Pages 1104-1116

  Wu, Xiao hui ^a,b   Wang, Jian qiang ^a   Peng, Juan juan ^a,b   Chen, Xiao hong ^a  

^a CENTRAL SOUTH UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b HUBEI UNIVERSITY OF AUTOMOTIVE TECHNOLOGY   (China)

Author keywords

Cross entropy; Multi criteria decision making; Prioritized aggregation operator; Simplified neutrosophic sets

Indexed keywords

DECISION MAKING; ENTROPY; PROBLEM SOLVING; SOCIAL NETWORKING (ONLINE);

CROSS ENTROPY; ENTROPY MEASURE; MULTI CRITERIA DECISION-MAKING; MULTI-CRITERIA DECISION MAKING PROBLEMS; MULTICRITERIA DECISION-MAKING; MULTICRITERION DECISION MAKINGS; NEUTROSOPHIC SETS; PRIORITIZED AGGREGATION OPERATORS; SIMPLIFIED NEUTROSOPHIC SET; UNCERTAINTY PROBLEMS;

MATHEMATICAL OPERATORS;

EID: 84996549564     PISSN: 15622479     EISSN: 21993211     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s40815-016-0180-2     Document Type: Article

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