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 …

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 …

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 …

A projection method for multiple attribute group decision making with probabilistic linguistic term sets

X Zhang, X Gou, Z Xu, H Liao - International Journal of Machine Learning …, 2019 - Springer
In multiple attribute group decision making (MAGDM) processes, decision makers often use
hesitant fuzzy linguistic term sets (HFLTSs) to express their opinions. However, it is …

A statistical approach to large-scale group decision making with incomplete hesitant fuzzy linguistic information by incorporating risk attitude

Y Zhou, C Zheng, P Wu, L Zhou - Expert Systems with Applications, 2024 - Elsevier
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 …

Limited budget-based consensus model for large group decision making with hesitant fuzzy linguistic information

P Liu, X Dong, P Wang - Applied Soft Computing, 2023 - Elsevier
Considering the uncertainty of large group decision-making and the limitation of resources,
this paper constructs a large group decision-making method with hesitant fuzzy linguistic …

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 …

Minimizing adjusted simple terms in the consensus reaching process with hesitant linguistic assessments in group decision making

Y Dong, X Chen, F Herrera - Information Sciences, 2015 - Elsevier
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 …

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 …

Reaching a consensus with minimum adjustment in MAGDM with hesitant fuzzy linguistic term sets

B Zhang, H Liang, G Zhang - Information Fusion, 2018 - Elsevier
In real decision making, decision makers tend to express their opinions with uncertainty
when facing complicated decision problem and environment. This paper develops a novel …