The linguistic preference relation (LPR) is introduced to efficiently deal with situations in
which the decision makers (DMs) provide their preference information by using linguistic …

Multi-attribute group decision-making (MAGDM) is a complicated cognitive process that
involves evaluation of opinion expression, information fusion, and analysis of multi-source …

Many group decision making (GDM) models enable experts to use only one preference
information representation form. It is natural to allow experts to express preferences in …

In group decision making problems, there exist the situations that decision makers may use
unbalanced linguistic term sets that are not uniformly and symmetrically distributed to …

Managing comparative linguistic expressions (CLEs) information is a key issue in group
decision-making (GDM). A transformation approach has been previously defined to convert …

In this paper, we propose the concept of distribution assessments in a linguistic term set, and
study the operational laws of linguistic distribution assessments. The weighted averaging …

Serving as an effective tool for describing both randomness and fuzziness of qualitative
concepts, the cloud model has become a common topic of research. By realizing the …

Different consensus models for group decision-making (GDM) problems have been
proposed in the literature. However, all of them consider the consensus reaching process a …

Based on the Computing with Words (CW), double hierarchy hesitant fuzzy linguistic term
set (DHHFLTS) can be used to express complex linguistic information accurately with two …

With the scale of group decision making increasing, it is a crucial issue to get the utmost of
collective intelligence for seeking the optimal solution. In this study, we propose an …