On qualitative multi-attribute group decision making and its consensus measure: A probability based perspective

HB Yan, T Ma, VN Huynh - Omega, 2017 - Elsevier
This paper focuses on qualitative multi-attribute group decision making (MAGDM) with
linguistic information in terms of single linguistic terms and/or flexible linguistic expressions …

A consensus model to manage minority opinions and noncooperative behaviors in large group decision making with probabilistic linguistic term sets

JL Zhou, JA Chen - IEEE Transactions on Fuzzy Systems, 2020 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
The alternative assessment and decision-making are often complicated and involve
enormous decision makers (DMs), which leads to a large group decision making (LGDM) …

Deriving heterogeneous experts weights from incomplete linguistic preference relations based on uninorm consistency

D Cheng, Z Zhou, F Cheng, J Wang - Knowledge-Based Systems, 2018 - Elsevier
In this study, we provide an expertise-based weight allocation approach for heterogeneous
experts with incomplete linguistic preference relations (ILPRs) in heterogeneous group …

Deriving the personalized individual semantics of linguistic information from flexible linguistic preference relations

L Jiang, H Liu, Y Ma, Y Li - Information Fusion, 2022 - Elsevier
In group decision making, flexible linguistic preference relations (FLPRs) are very useful
with the pairwise comparisons taking the form of flexible linguistic expressions (FLEs). Due …

Improving consistency based on regret theory: A multi-attribute group decision making method with linguistic distribution assessments

YM Wang, X Jia, HH Song, L Martínez - Expert Systems with Applications, 2023 - Elsevier
Multi-attribute group decision making (MAGDM) problems widely exist in our daily life. In
such problems, multiple decision makers (DMs) are involved and elicit their evaluations to …

A sequential three-way decision-based group consensus method under probabilistic linguistic term sets

X Han, J Zhan - Information Sciences, 2023 - Elsevier
For complex decision-making problems, the joint evaluation of multiple experts is
indispensable for efficiently addressing them. Therefore, multi-attribute group decision …

Group decision-making method based on expert credibility with multi-granularity probabilistic linguistic Z-number preference relation

J Zhang, M Li - Information Sciences, 2023 - Elsevier
Multi-granularity probabilistic linguistic Z-number (PLZN) is an effective and flexible tool for
expressing expert opinions. For group decision-making (GDM) problems with multi …

Approaches to decision making with linguistic preference relations based on additive consistency

F Jin, Z Ni, H Chen, Y Li - Applied Soft Computing, 2016 - Elsevier
The linguistic preference relation (LPR) is introduced to efficiently deal with situations in
which the decision makers (DMs) provide their preference information by using linguistic …

[HTML][HTML] Probabilistic linguistic power aggregation operators for multi-criteria group decision making

A Kobina, D Liang, X He - Symmetry, 2017 - mdpi.com
As an effective aggregation tool, power average (PA) allows the input arguments being
aggregated to support and reinforce each other, which provides more versatility in the …

[HTML][HTML] Managing consensus reaching process with self-confident double hierarchy linguistic preference relations in group decision making

X Gou, Z Xu, X Wang, H Liao - Fuzzy Optimization and Decision Making, 2021 - Springer
Group decision making (GDM) can be defined as an environment where there exist a set of
possible alternatives and a set of individuals (experts, judgements, etc.). Preference relation …