When solving group decision-making (GDM) problems, the proper values of consensus
thresholds are vital for consensus checking and improving. Decision makers are usually not …

The linguistic term set is an applicable and flexible technique in qualitative decision making
(QDM). To further develop the linguistic term set, this paper proposes a generalized …

This paper proposes a new group decision making (GDM) method based on the consistency
and the consensus analysis of dual multiplicative linguistic preference relations (DMLPRs) …

As an effective tool to describe qualitative evaluations, probabilistic linguistic term set (PLTS)
can identify the different preference degrees for the possible linguistic evaluations. For the …

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 …

The hesitant multiplicative elements (HMEs) are useful tool to address situations in which
the decision makers (DMs) are hesitant about several possible multiplicative values …

For group decision making with incomplete linguistic preference relations, this paper first
make an analysis about individual consistency, based on which a goal programming model …

A linguistic distribution assessment is an effective approach to represent uncertain
preferences in large-scale group decision making (LSGDM). The same word often signifies …

Linguistic distribution expressions provide a flexible way for decision makers to express their
opinions in linguistic decision making. When working with a linguistic distribution, words …

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 …