Evaluation of small and medium-sized enterprises' sustainable development with hesitant fuzzy linguistic group decision-making method

F Jin, Y Zhang, H Garg, J Liu, J Chen - Applied Intelligence, 2022 - Springer
With the rapid development of the economy, the competition among enterprises is
increasingly intensifying and the internal contradictions of the enterprise are prominent …

Local feedback mechanism based on consistency-derived for consensus building in group decision making with hesitant fuzzy linguistic preference relations

P Wu, J Zhu, L Zhou, H Chen - Computers & Industrial Engineering, 2019 - Elsevier
Considering that hesitant fuzzy linguistic preference relation (HFLPR) is an effective way to
express decision makers'(DMs') hesitant qualitative preference information for a pair of …

A Novel Multicriteria Group Decision‐Making Approach with Hesitant Picture Fuzzy Linguistic Information

L Yang, X Wu, J Qian - Mathematical Problems in Engineering, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
In real‐life group decision‐making environment, different decision‐makers (DMs) might be
hesitant to provide their evaluation by more than two linguistic terms with positive, neutral …

A mathematical programming approach to manage group decision making with incomplete hesitant fuzzy linguistic preference relations

Y Song, G Li - Computers & Industrial Engineering, 2019 - Elsevier
Hesitant fuzzy linguistic information can be a useful decision-making tool in uncertain and
complex environments. In this paper, we establish a new group decision making (GDM) …

Selection of a solar water heater for large-scale group decision making with hesitant fuzzy linguistic preference relations based on the best-worst method

Y Zhou, C Zheng, L Zhou, H Chen - Applied Intelligence, 2023 - Springer
Due to the promotion of sustainable development policies, solar water heaters have quickly
occupied the market. Choosing the best-performing solar water heater has become a …

Distance-based multi-criteria group decision-making approaches with multi-hesitant fuzzy linguistic information

J Wang, JQ Wang, HY Zhang… - International Journal of …, 2017 - World Scientific
In this paper, the distance-based multi-criteria group decision-making (MCGDM)
approaches using multi-hesitant fuzzy linguistic term sets (MHFLTSs) are proposed …

A decision framework under a linguistic hesitant fuzzy set for solving multi-criteria group decision making problems

R Krishankumar, KS Ravichandran, J Premaladha… - Sustainability, 2018 - mdpi.com
With fast-growing interest in sustainable healthcare management, proper selection and
evaluation of hospitals become highly essential. Generally, experts/decision-makers (DMs) …

Evaluation of startup companies using multicriteria decision making based on hesitant fuzzy linguistic information envelopment analysis models

M Lin, Z Chen, R Chen, H Fujita - International Journal of …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
Evaluating startup companies is an important management process for technology business
incubators and it is also a typical multicriteria decision‐making (MCDM) problem. There exist …

Clustering and compatibility-based approach for large-scale group decision making with hesitant fuzzy linguistic preference relations: An application in e-waste …

C Zheng, Y Zhou, L Zhou, H Chen - Expert Systems with Applications, 2022 - Elsevier
Considering that large-scale group decision making (LSGDM) has been widely
concentrated on clustering and lower compatibility problems, this paper focuses on …

Multi-attribute group decision-making using double hierarchy hesitant fuzzy linguistic preference information

R Krishankumar, KS Ravichandran, V Shyam… - Neural Computing and …, 2020 - Springer
Double hierarchy hesitant fuzzy linguistic term set (DHHFLTS) is one of the successful
extensions of the hesitant fuzzy linguistic term set used for describing the uncertain …