Consistency has a crucial influence on the rationality of preference information and even the
final decision result. This paper presents two new definitions of additive consistency for …

Normal wiggly hesitant fuzzy set (NWHFS) is a new fuzzy information form to help decision
makers (DMs) express their evaluations, which can further dig the potential uncertain …

Patients' prioritization is a complex multi-criteria decision-making process in the hospital
management. The linguistic variable is a preferable way for health experts to evaluate …

Group decision making (GDM) with intuitionistic fuzzy preference relations (IFPRs) has been
an important and active research topic recently, in which one of the most challenging issues …

A large-scale group decision-making (LGDM) problem is studied from the perspective of
multi-stage hesitant fuzzy linguistic term sets (MHFLTSs). Solving an LGDM problem …

In recent years, the selection of suitable renewable energy policy is very significant issue
that could affect on environment and economic development. To address the issue, some …

Probability interpretations play an important role in understanding decision makers'(DMs)
behaviour in decision making. In this paper, we extend hesitant fuzzy sets to probability …

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 …

The research activities in group decision making have dramatically increased over the last
decade. In particular, the application of multiple attribute decision-making methods to group …

As a useful generalization of fuzzy sets, the hesitant fuzzy set is designed for situations in
which it is difficult to determine the membership of an element to a set because of ambiguity …