Group Decision Making Method Based on Linguistic Information for Selection of Booksellers in University Library

Author

Jia, Yuying ; Yue, Zhongliang

Author_Institution

Guangdong Ocean Univ., Zhanjiang

fYear

2008

fDate

12-14 Oct. 2008

Firstpage

1

Lastpage

5

Abstract

In this paper, using uncertain linguistic Information to deal quantitatively with the selection and ranking of booksellers about public bidding for purchases of books in university library. Firstly, linguistic evaluations are presented by experts according to their linguistic preference scale, and are normalized. Then the linguistic evaluations are aggregated utilizing ULA operator, and synthetical linguistic evaluation of group decision making is aggregated using ULOW operator. The order of booksellers is obtained according to complementary matrix theory. Finally, an example is given to show the practicability and validity of this method.

Keywords

academic libraries; decision making; purchasing; booksellers; group decision making method; linguistic preference scale; purchasing; uncertain linguistic Information; university library; Aggregates; Books; Cost accounting; Decision making; Educational institutions; Libraries; Measurement units; Oceans;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Wireless Communications, Networking and Mobile Computing, 2008. WiCOM '08. 4th International Conference on

Conference_Location

Dalian

Print_ISBN

978-1-4244-2107-7

Electronic_ISBN

978-1-4244-2108-4

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/WiCom.2008.1857

Filename

4680046