With massive growth in decision-making theory, representation of preference information
plays an indispensable role. To rationally handle uncertainty, scholars presented different …

The hesitant fuzzy linguistic term set (HFLTS) is applicable in expressing people's hesitant
qualitative preference information. However, it may lose preference information as all the …

In response to the lack of information and the arguments among the decision-makers (DMs)
in large-scale group decision making (LSGDM), this study proposes a method that integrates …

Hesitant fuzzy linguistic preference relations (HFLPRs) are commonly used by decision
makers when they are hesitant to express preferences. The use of HFLPRs in group …

Hesitant fuzzy linguistic information has been used as a powerful expression to present the
judgments under uncertainty. To improve its decision-making theory and enhance its …

The complexity and impact of many real world decision making problems lead to the
necessity of considering multiple points of view, building group decision making problems in …

In some real-world decision processes, decision makers may prefer to provide their opinions
using linguistic expressions instead of a single linguistic term. Particularly, they may hesitate …

Hesitant fuzzy linguistic preference relations (HFLPRs) can be used to describe hesitant
judgments of decision makers (DMs). To further research the utilization of HFLPRs, this …

Considering the conditions that: 1) same linguistic term means different things for different
people; 2) flexible semantics cannot be represented by original linguistic term; and 3) some …

Due to the uncertainty of decision environment and differences of decision makers' culture
and knowledge background, multi-granular HFLTSs are usually elicited by decision makers …