Ranking DMUs by ideal points in the presence of fuzzy and ordinal data

Subject Areas : Applied Mathematics

M Izadikhah ¹ , Z Aliakbarpoor ² , H Sharafi ³

1 - Department of Mathematics, College of Science, Arak Branch, Islamic Azad University, Arak, Iran
2 - Department of Mathematics, College of Science, Arak Branch, Islamic Azad University, Arak, Iran
3 - Department of Mathematics, Science and Research Branch, Islamic Azad University, Tehran, Iran

Received: 2015-09-20 Accepted : 2015-09-20 Published : 2015-12-01

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