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 …

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 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 …

A global optimization feedback model with PSO for large scale group decision making in hesitant fuzzy linguistic environments

MK Zhao, J Guo, J Wu, ZS Xu - Expert Systems with Applications, 2023 - Elsevier
In an increasingly complex and uncertain decision-making environment, large-scale group
decision-making (LSGDM) can offer a more efficient method, allowing a large number of …

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 …

A cohesion-driven consensus reaching process for large scale group decision making under a hesitant fuzzy linguistic term sets environment

RM Rodríguez, Á Labella, M Sesma-Sara… - Computers & Industrial …, 2021 - Elsevier
Large-scale group decision-making (LSGDM) under uncertainty modelled by comparative
linguistic expressions based on a hesitant fuzzy linguistic term set (HFLTS) has recently …

Signed distance-based consensus in multi-criteria group decision-making with multi-granular hesitant unbalanced linguistic information

Z Tian, J Wang, H Zhang, T Wang - Computers & Industrial Engineering, 2018 - Elsevier
This study aims to deal with hesitant fuzzy linguistic multi-criteria group decision-making
(MCGDM) problems with multi-granular unbalanced linguistic term sets. Firstly, a signed …

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 …

Consensus improvement model in group decision making with hesitant fuzzy linguistic term sets or hesitant fuzzy linguistic preference relations

H Zhang, Y Dai - Computers & Industrial Engineering, 2023 - Elsevier
Hesitant fuzzy linguistic term sets (HFLTSs) and hesitant fuzzy linguistic preference relations
(HFLPRs) are widely used where decision makers are permitted to provide qualitative …

Consensus reaching with consistency control in group decision making with incomplete hesitant fuzzy linguistic preference relations

Z Li, Z Zhang, W Yu - Computers & Industrial Engineering, 2022 - Elsevier
Due to complicated decision environment and limited knowledge of decision makers,
decision makers may provide incomplete hesitant fuzzy linguistic preference relations …