As a generalization to hesitant fuzzy linguistic term set (HFLTS), double hierarchy hesitant
fuzzy linguistic term set (DHHFLTS) is presented which circumvents the weakness of HFLTS …

When using several possible linguistic terms with different weights (represented by
probability values) to express preferences, the probability distribution of those linguistic …

In this paper, the concept of a hesitant 2-tuple linguistic information model is introduced. It
provides a linguistic and computational basis to manage the situations in which experts …

The theory of hesitant fuzzy linguistic term sets (HFLTSs) is a powerful technique used to
describe hesitant situations, which are typically assessed by experts using several possible …

Globally growing demand for healthcare has highlighted increasing requirements for
healthcare management. Healthcare management is complex, and multi-faceted, with many …

The hesitant fuzzy linguistic term set (HFLTS) and the linguistic distribution (LD) are
becoming popular tools to describe decision makers' linguistic preferences. By combining …

Multi-criteria group decision making (MCGDM) is a common activity in human-beings' daily
life. In real-world problems is common that decision makers prefer to use linguistic values …

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 term set (HFLTS) is a very useful technology in dealing with decision‐
making problems where people have hesitancy in providing their linguistic assessments …

The paper presents a consensus model for group decision making (GDM) with hesitant fuzzy
linguistic preference relations (HFLPRs), which is composed of two parts:(1) clustering …