Abstract Recently, the Hesitant Fuzzy Linguistic Term Sets (HFLTSs) have been widely used
to address cognitive complex linguistic information because of its advantage in representing …

The hesitant fuzzy linguistic term set (HFLTS) is applicable in expressing people's hesitant
qualitative preference information. However, it may lose preference information as all the …

Two-sided matching decision making (TSMDM) problems exist widely in human being's
daily life. For practical TSMDM problems, matching objects with different culture and …

Incomplete hesitant fuzzy linguistic preference relations (IHFLPRs) are useful in decision
making which combine advantages of hesitant fuzzy linguistic term sets and incomplete …

Hesitant fuzzy linguistic information has been used as a powerful expression to present the
judgments under uncertainty. To improve its decision-making theory and enhance its …

With fast-growing interest in sustainable healthcare management, proper selection and
evaluation of hospitals become highly essential. Generally, experts/decision-makers (DMs) …

Hesitant fuzzy linguistic term sets (HFLTSs) and double hierarchy hesitant fuzzy linguistic
term sets (DHHFLTSs) are two frequently used linguistic information forms in uncertain …

Linguistic hesitant fuzzy set (LHFS), a special hesitant fuzzy set (HFS) defined on linguistic
term set (LTS), not only can express decision makers'(DMs') qualitative preferences, but can …

Aiming at the large-scale experts and the lower consensus in large group decision making,
a novel clustering-based method integrating correlation and consensus of hesitant fuzzy …

In group decision making (GDM) with qualitative settings, experts may require several
possible linguistic values rather than a single term to express their preferences. A hesitant …