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 …

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 …

Hesitant fuzzy linguistic group DEMATEL method with multi-granular evaluation scales

W Han, Y Sun, H Xie, Z Che - International Journal of Fuzzy Systems, 2018 - Springer
Decision-making trial and evaluation laboratory is a widely applied method used in the
research of complicated socioeconomic system issues. However, this traditional method is …

Total orders of extended hesitant fuzzy linguistic term sets: definitions, generations and applications

H Wang, Z Xu - Knowledge-Based Systems, 2016 - Elsevier
Extended hesitant fuzzy linguistic term sets (EHFLTSs) are helpful to model uncertain
linguistic information in qualitative group decision making (QGDM). Total orders are …

Extended TODIM for multi-criteria group decision making based on unbalanced hesitant fuzzy linguistic term sets

W Yu, Z Zhang, Q Zhong, L Sun - Computers & Industrial Engineering, 2017 - Elsevier
Uncertainty and impreciseness usually exist widely in decision making problems nowadays.
When eliciting assessments over alternatives, decision makers tend to have some hesitancy …

Alternative ranking-based clustering and reliability index-based consensus reaching process for hesitant fuzzy large scale group decision making

X Liu, Y Xu, R Montes, RX Ding… - IEEE Transactions on …, 2018 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Recently, large scale group decision making (LSGDM) problems have become a hotspot.
This paper focuses on hesitant fuzzy LSGDM problems where decision makers (DMs) use …

Multi-criteria group decision-making approach based on 2-tuple linguistic aggregation operators with multi-hesitant fuzzy linguistic information

J Wang, J Wang, H Zhang, X Chen - International Journal of Fuzzy …, 2016 - Springer
In practice, when the frequency of a linguistic term in evaluation information is greater than
one, a consensus has been reached and this frequency is regarded to be one by default …

Hesitant probabilistic fuzzy linguistic sets with applications in multi-criteria group decision making problems

DK Joshi, I Beg, S Kumar - Mathematics, 2018 - mdpi.com
Uncertainties due to randomness and fuzziness comprehensively exist in control and
decision support systems. In the present study, we introduce notion of occurring probability …

Extended hesitant fuzzy linguistic term sets and their aggregation in group decision making

H Wang - International Journal of Computational Intelligence …, 2015 - Springer
Group decision making problems which organize a group of experts to evaluate a set of
alternatives with respect to several criteria are commonly discussed recently. Hesitant fuzzy …

A programming-based algorithm for probabilistic uncertain linguistic intuitionistic fuzzy group decision-making

K Gong, C Chen - Symmetry, 2019 - mdpi.com
As an effective tool to express the subjective preferences of decision makers, the linguistic
term sets (LTS) have been widely used in group decision-making (GDM) problems, such as …