Group decision making based on linguistic distributions and hesitant assessments: Maximizing the support degree with an accuracy constraint

Y Wu, CC Li, X Chen, Y Dong - Information Fusion, 2018 - Elsevier
The hesitant fuzzy linguistic term set (HFLTS) and the linguistic distribution are becoming
popular tools to model linguistic expressions with multiple linguistic terms in decision …

Managing multigranular unbalanced hesitant fuzzy linguistic information in multiattribute large-scale group decision making: A linguistic distribution-based approach

Z Zhang, W Yu, L Martínez… - IEEE Transactions on …, 2019 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
With the increase of technological and societal demands, more and more decision makers
are involved in the process of group decision making, which is called large-scale group …

Proportional hesitant fuzzy linguistic term set for multiple criteria group decision making

ZS Chen, KS Chin, YL Li, Y Yang - Information Sciences, 2016 - Elsevier
The theory of hesitant fuzzy linguistic term sets (HFLTSs) is a powerful technique used to
describe hesitant situations, which are typically assessed by experts using several possible …

Group decision making with hesitant fuzzy linguistic preference relations based on modified extent measurement

P Ren, Z Xu, X Wang, XJ Zeng - Expert Systems with Applications, 2021 - Elsevier
The paper presents a consensus model for group decision making (GDM) with hesitant fuzzy
linguistic preference relations (HFLPRs), which is composed of two parts:(1) clustering …

A clustering method for large-scale group decision-making with multi-stage hesitant fuzzy linguistic terms

Z Ma, J Zhu, K Ponnambalam, S Zhang - Information Fusion, 2019 - Elsevier
A large-scale group decision-making (LGDM) problem is studied from the perspective of
multi-stage hesitant fuzzy linguistic term sets (MHFLTSs). Solving an LGDM problem …

Attitude quantifier based possibility distribution generation method for hesitant fuzzy linguistic group decision making

J Hao, F Chiclana - Information Sciences, 2020 - Elsevier
The possibility distribution-based approach is one of the powerful tools available to manage
hesitant fuzzy linguistic term set (HFLTS) information. However, existing possibility …

Personalized individual semantics based on consistency in hesitant linguistic group decision making with comparative linguistic expressions

CC Li, RM Rodríguez, L Martínez, Y Dong… - Knowledge-Based …, 2018 - Elsevier
In decision making problems, decision makers may prefer to use more flexible linguistic
expressions instead of using only one linguistic term to express their preferences. The …

A novel linguistic group decision-making model based on extended hesitant fuzzy linguistic term sets

C Wei, N Zhao, X Tang - International Journal of Uncertainty …, 2015 - World Scientific
Hesitant fuzzy linguistic term set (HFLTS) is a set with ordered consecutive linguistic terms,
and is very useful in addressing the situations where people are hesitant in providing their …

A consensus model for hesitant fuzzy linguistic group decision-making in the framework of Dempster–Shafer evidence theory

P Liu, X Zhang, W Pedrycz - Knowledge-Based Systems, 2021 - Elsevier
In group decision-making (GDM), a consensus building process (CRP) is necessary to
improve the level of consensus within the group. This paper develops a new CRP model for …

A novel probabilistic linguistic approach for large-scale group decision making with incomplete weight information

X Zhang - International Journal of Fuzzy Systems, 2018 - Springer
The large-scale group decision-making (GDM) problems with linguistic information have
received more and more attentions; however, how to effectively manage the linguistic …