A study on the steps to follow in linguistic decision analysis is presented in a context of multi-
criteria/multi-person decision making. Three steps are established for solving a multi-criteria
decision making problem under linguistic information:(i) the choice of the linguistic term set
with its semantic in order to express the linguistic performance values according to all the
criteria,(ii) the choice of the aggregation operator of linguistic information in order to
aggregate the linguistic performance values, and (iii) the choice of the best alternatives …