A consensus process for group decision making with probabilistic linguistic preference relations

Y Zhang, Z Xu, H Liao - Information sciences, 2017 - Elsevier
In group decision making (GDM) process, consensus is a fundamental problem. The
information provided by the experts in a GDM problem is usually expressed as preferences …

Probabilistic linguistic term sets in multi-attribute group decision making

Q Pang, H Wang, Z Xu - Information Sciences, 2016 - Elsevier
When expressing preferences in qualitative setting, several possible linguistic terms with
different weights (represented by probabilities) may be considered at the same time. The …

Group decision making based on multiplicative consistency and consensus of fuzzy linguistic preference relations

Z Zhang, SM Chen, C Wang - Information Sciences, 2020 - Elsevier
Fuzzy linguistic preference relations (FLPRs) are an efficient way to express qualitative
judgments of decision makers (DMs). This paper proposes a new group decision making …

Multi-stage consistency optimization algorithm for decision making with incomplete probabilistic linguistic preference relation

P Wang, P Liu, F Chiclana - Information Sciences, 2021 - Elsevier
Incomplete probabilistic linguistic term sets (InPLTSs) can effectively describe the qualitative
pairwise judgment information in uncertain decision-making problems, making them suitable …

Consensus reaching for group decision making with multi-granular unbalanced linguistic information: A bounded confidence and minimum adjustment-based …

Z Zhang, Z Li, Y Gao - Information Fusion, 2021 - Elsevier
In group decision making problems, there exist the situations that decision makers may use
unbalanced linguistic term sets that are not uniformly and symmetrically distributed to …

The optimal group consensus models for 2-tuple linguistic preference relations

ZW Gong, J Forrest, YJ Yang - Knowledge-based systems, 2013 - Elsevier
We establish in this paper the optimization model of group consensus of 2-tuple linguistic
preferential relations (LPRGCO Model), put forward three kinds of solutions to this model …

On compatibility of uncertain additive linguistic preference relations and its application in the group decision making

H Chen, L Zhou, B Han - Knowledge-Based Systems, 2011 - Elsevier
We develop a new compatibility for the uncertain additive linguistic preference relations and
utilize it to determine the optimal weights of experts in the group decision making (GDM) …

A linguistic metric for consensus reaching processes based on ELICIT comprehensive minimum cost consensus models

D García-Zamora, Á Labella… - … on Fuzzy Systems, 2022 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Linguistic group decision making (LiGDM) aims at solving decision situations involving
human decision makers (DMs) whose opinions are modeled by using linguistic information …

On consistency measures of linguistic preference relations

Y Dong, Y Xu, H Li - European Journal of Operational Research, 2008 - Elsevier
Inspired by the concept of deviation measure between two linguistic preference relations,
this paper further defines the deviation measure of a linguistic preference relation to the set …

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 …