Consistency and consensus models for group decision-making with uncertain 2-tuple linguistic preference relations

Z Zhang, C Guo - International journal of systems Science, 2016 - Taylor & Francis
Due to the uncertainty of the decision environment and the lack of knowledge, decision-
makers may use uncertain linguistic preference relations to express their preferences over …

A consensus-based method for group decision making with incomplete uncertain linguistic preference relations

Y Xu, Z Zhang, H Wang - Soft Computing, 2019 - Springer
In practical group decision-making (GDM) problems, it is nature for experts to express their
preference relations in uncertain linguistic pattern, due to the ambiguity of the external …

An additive-consistency-and consensus-based approach for uncertain group decision making with linguistic preference relations

JF Tian, Z Zhang, MH Ha - IEEE Transactions on Fuzzy …, 2018 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Linguistic preference relations (LPRs) can indicate the decision makers (DMs)'qualitative
pairwise judgments regarding a set of alternatives in uncertain multicriteria decision-making …

On compatibility of uncertain additive linguistic preference relations and its application in the group decision making

H Chen, L Zhou, B Han - Knowledge-Based Systems, 2011 - Elsevier
We develop a new compatibility for the uncertain additive linguistic preference relations and
utilize it to determine the optimal weights of experts in the group decision making (GDM) …

Consistency-based algorithms to estimate missing elements for uncertain 2-tuple linguistic preference relations

Z Zhang, C Guo - International Journal of Computational …, 2014 - Taylor & Francis
For actual decision making problems, decision makers sometimes may have difficulty to
provide all the preference information over alternatives through pairwise comparisons. In …

Group decision making based on multiple types of linguistic preference relations

Z Xu - Information Sciences, 2008 - Elsevier
In this paper, we investigate group decision making problems with multiple types of linguistic
preference relations. The paper has two parts with similar structures. In the first part, we …

Consistency-and consensus-based group decision-making method with incomplete probabilistic linguistic preference relations

P Liu, P Wang, W Pedrycz - IEEE Transactions on Fuzzy …, 2020 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
The use of incomplete probabilistic linguistic term sets (InPLTSs) can enrich the flexibility of
qualitative decision-making information expression, especially in decision-making situations …

Optimal consensus models for group decision making under linguistic preference relations

Y Xu, H Sun, H Wang - International Transactions in …, 2016 - Wiley Online Library
This paper proposes an optimal consensus model to derive weights for linguistic preference
relations (LPRs). Two indexes, an individual‐to‐group consensus index (ICI) and a …

An optimisation-based method to conduct consistency and consensus in group decision making under probabilistic uncertain linguistic preference relations

Y Song, G Li, D Ergu, N Liu - Journal of the Operational Research …, 2022 - Taylor & Francis
The use of probabilistic uncertain linguistic preference relations (PULPRs) enriches the
flexibility of decision makers (DMs) in group decision making (GDM). However, the GDM …

A consensus based method for multi-criteria group decision making under uncertain linguistic setting

J Xu, Z Wu, Y Zhang - Group Decision and Negotiation, 2014 - Springer
A two-stage (a consensus process and a selection process) approach is proposed to solve
multi-criteria group decision making problems under an uncertain linguistic environment …