Three-way group decision making based on multigranulation fuzzy decision-theoretic rough set over two universes

International Journal of Approximate Reasoning

Volumn 81, Issue , 2017, Pages 87-102

  Sun, Bingzhen ^a   Ma, Weimin ^b   Xiao, Xia ^b  

^a XIDIAN UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b TONGJI UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Decision theoretic rough set; Fuzzy rough set; Group decision making; Multigranulation; Rough set over two universes; Three way decisions

Indexed keywords

APPROXIMATION ALGORITHMS; DECISION MAKING; DECISION THEORY; DIAGNOSIS; GROUP THEORY;

DECISION-THEORETIC ROUGH SETS; FUZZY-ROUGH SETS; GROUP DECISION MAKING; MULTI-GRANULATIONS; THREE-WAY DECISIONS;

ROUGH SET THEORY;

EID: 84998953905     PISSN: 0888613X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ijar.2016.11.001     Document Type: Article

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