Linguistic Decision Making
Subtitle: Theory and Methods
By: by Zeshui Xu
Contributors: SpringerLink (Online service)
Publisher: Springer Berlin Heidelberg; Imprint: Springer
Published: 2012
Place of publication: Berlin, Heidelberg
Language: eng
Format: [electronic resource] :
Number of pages: 300
ISBN-13: 9783642294402
Subjects: Operation Research/Decision Theory; Data Mining and Knowledge Discovery; Electronic data processing; Applications of Mathematics; Optimization; Data mining; Mathematics; Mathematical optimization; Computing Methodologies; Operations research
Description: "Linguistic Decision Making: Theory and Methods" is the first monograph which mainly deals with the interdisciplinary subject of computing with words, information fusion and decision analysis. It provides a thorough and systematic introduction to the linguistic aggregation operators, linguistic preference relations, and various models for and approaches to multi-attribute decision making with linguistic information. It also offers various practical examples with tables and figures to illustrate the theory and methods discussed. Researchers and professionals engaged in the relevant fields will find it a useful reference book. Professor Zeshui Xu, senior member of the IEEE, works at the PLA University of Science and Techology, China.
Table of contents: title: Linguistic Evaluation Scales; title: Linguistic Aggregation Operators; title: Linguistic Preference Relations; title: Approaches to Linguistic Multi-Attribute Decision Making.