Entropy measures for hesitant fuzzy linguistic term sets using the concept of interval-transformed hesitant fuzzy elements

B Farhadinia, E Herrera-Viedma - International Journal of Fuzzy Systems, 2018 - Springer
This article first aims to critically review the existing literature on entropy measures for
hesitant fuzzy linguistic term set (HFLTS) and then exploits a bridge between HFLTSs and …

Novel hesitant fuzzy linguistic entropy and cross-entropy measures in multiple criteria decision making

B Farhadinia, Z Xu - Applied Intelligence, 2018 - Springer
In this contribution, we mainly investigate how new entropy and cross entropy measures of
hesitant fuzzy linguistic term sets (HFLTSs) can be designed by using the counterparts …

Distance and similarity measures for hesitant fuzzy linguistic term sets and their application in multi-criteria decision making

H Liao, Z Xu, XJ Zeng - Information Sciences, 2014 - Elsevier
The hesitant fuzzy linguistic term sets (HFLTSs), which can be used to represent an expert's
hesitant preferences when assessing a linguistic variable, increase the flexibility of eliciting …

Multiple criteria decision-making methods with completely unknown weights in hesitant fuzzy linguistic term setting

B Farhadinia - Knowledge-Based Systems, 2016 - Elsevier
As for multi-criteria decision making problems with hesitant fuzzy linguistic information, it is
common that the criteria involved in the problems are associated with the predetermined …

Hesitancy degree-based correlation measures for hesitant fuzzy linguistic term sets and their applications in multiple criteria decision making

H Liao, X Gou, Z Xu, XJ Zeng, F Herrera - Information Sciences, 2020 - Elsevier
The hesitant fuzzy linguistic term set (HFLTS) turns out to be useful in representing people's
hesitant qualitative information. The aim of this paper is to investigate new correlation …

Qualitative decision making with correlation coefficients of hesitant fuzzy linguistic term sets

H Liao, Z Xu, XJ Zeng, JM Merigó - Knowledge-Based Systems, 2015 - Elsevier
The hesitant fuzzy linguistic term set (HFLTS) is a new and flexible tool in representing
hesitant qualitative information in decision making. Correlation measures and correlation …

Note on entropies of hesitant fuzzy linguistic term sets and their applications

C Wei, RM Rodriguez, P Li - Information Sciences, 2020 - Elsevier
Hesitant fuzzy linguistic term set (HFLTS) is very useful in depicting the situations where
people are hesitant to provide their opinions or assessments. In a HFLTS, it should be …

Pairwise comparison and distance measure of hesitant fuzzy linguistic term sets

HC Huang, X Yang - Mathematical Problems in Engineering, 2014 - Wiley Online Library
A hesitant fuzzy linguistic term set (HFLTS), allowing experts using several possible
linguistic terms to assess a qualitative linguistic variable, is very useful to express people's …

Managing information measures for hesitant fuzzy linguistic term sets and their applications in designing clustering algorithms

M Tang, H Liao - Information fusion, 2019 - Elsevier
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 …

Some approaches to constructing distance measures for hesitant fuzzy linguistic term sets with applications in decision-making

N Zhao, Z Xu, Z Ren - … Journal of Information Technology & Decision …, 2018 - World Scientific
The purpose of this paper is to investigate the methods of constructing distance measures
for hesitant fuzzy linguistic term sets (HFLTSs) and their applications in multi-criteria …