An adaptive consensus method for multi-attribute group decision making under uncertain linguistic environment

Applied Soft Computing Journal

Volumn 58, Issue , 2017, Pages 339-353

  Pang, Jifang ^a   Liang, Jiye ^a   Song, Peng ^a  

^a SHANXI UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Adaptive experts weights; Dominance index; Multi attribute group decision making; Multi level consensus indices; Uncertain linguistic variable

Indexed keywords

FEEDBACK CONTROL; LINGUISTICS; NONLINEAR PROGRAMMING;

COMPARISON AND ANALYSIS; DOMINANCE INDEX; IDENTIFICATION RULES; MULTI-ATTRIBUTE GROUP DECISION MAKING; MULTI-ATTRIBUTE GROUP DECISION MAKINGS (MAGDM); MULTILEVELS; UNCERTAIN LINGUISTIC; UNCERTAIN LINGUISTIC VARIABLES;

DECISION MAKING;

EID: 85019484006     PISSN: 15684946     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.asoc.2017.04.039     Document Type: Article

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