Multiple-criteria decision-making is common in our daily life. The probabilistic linguistic term
set is an effective tool to represent both simple and cognitive complex linguistic expressions …

In the increasingly complex environment of today, decision-making problems face general
challenges involving the multi-dimensional relationships and the representation of uncertain …

The probabilistic linguistic term set (PLTS), which allows people to give their qualitative
preferences in linguistic terms with corresponding probabilities, is a powerful form to express …

The quality function deployment (QFD) is an effective tool to translate the customer
requirements (CRs) to the design requirements (DRs) of a product. The process of selecting …

The probabilistic linguistic term set (PLTS) is a powerful tool for describing qualitative
evaluations derived from teams of experts, and it has adequate description capability in …

In multiple attribute decision making (MADM) problems, 2-dimension linguistic term set
(2DLTS) is useful for modelling both the linguistic evaluations on alternatives and the …

The preference ranking organization method for enrichment evaluation (PROMETHEE)
technique is a comprehensive and efficient multi-criteria decision-making (MCDM) method …

The probabilistic linguistic terms set (PLTS) can reflect different importance degrees or
weights of all possible linguistic terms (LTs) given by the experts for a specific object. The …

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 …

The PROMETHEE methods basic principle is focused on a pairwise comparison of
alternatives for each criterion, selecting a preference function type that often requires …