… linguistic approach, which collects possible values of a linguistic variable using a linguistic
term … In GDM problems, using a single linguistic term as an evaluating value may be not …

… uncertain linguistic terms as “only a little low” and “far from very high”. In fact, we can analyze
the above linguistic terms by dividing them into two hierarchies, one is the basic linguistic …

… of preference relation called linguistic preference relations with … We call this linguistic term
set L as the linguistic scale. … assumes that experts use a set of nine linguistic terms \(L = \{ l_{{ …

… using the probabilistic linguistic preference relations (PLPRs… ) in the form of probabilistic
linguistic term sets (PLTSs). As … probabilities of the probabilistic linguistic elements (PLEs). Then, …

… (LPRs), which is called Linguistic Geometric Consistency Index (LGCI). For HFLPRs with …
basic notions of fuzzy preference relations (FPRs) and linguistic preference relations (LPRs). In …

… However, in iterative inference of the missing values of ILPR, we find that Theorem 1 in [60]
does not always hold, ie, the preference relations got after completion using their method …

… represents qualitative aspects as linguistic values by means of linguistic variables [1−6]. …
term set, where si represents a possible value for a linguistic variable, we consider the term set …

… into 2-tuple linguistic fuzzy preference relation, and introduced an … linguistic fuzzy preference
relation. To ensure that each HFLTS in an HFLPR has the same number of linguistic terms, …

… linguistic preference relation only allows experts to express their preference degrees by
one linguistic term… In many cases, experts may hesitate among different linguistic terms. …

… Hesitant fuzzy linguistic preference relations (HFLPRs) can well denote the decision makers
… First, a multiplicative consistency concept for linguistic preference relations (LPRs) is …