Multiple attribute group decision making: A generic conceptual framework and a classification scheme

Ö Kabak, B Ervural - Knowledge-Based Systems, 2017 - Elsevier
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 …

Decision-making model of machine tool remanufacturing alternatives based on dual interval rough number clouds

G Huang, L Xiao, G Zhang - Engineering Applications of Artificial …, 2021 - Elsevier
Remanufacturing of machine tools has become one of the crucial topical subjects as it can
effectively reduce the manufacturing cost compared with traditional new product …

Customer-oriented product and service design by a novel quality function deployment framework with complex linguistic evaluations

X Wu, H Liao - Information Processing & Management, 2021 - Elsevier
Quality function deployment (QFD), as a widely-used quality management method, can
effectively capture customers' preferences of products and services by involving lots of …

A new hesitant fuzzy linguistic approach for multiple attribute decision making based on Dempster–Shafer evidence theory

P Liu, X Zhang - Applied Soft Computing, 2020 - Elsevier
Hesitant fuzzy linguistic term sets (HFLTSs) are useful tool to represent qualitative
information in multiple attribute decision making (MADM), and Dempster–Shafer evidence …

An extended outranking approach for multi-criteria decision-making problems with linguistic intuitionistic fuzzy numbers

H Zhang, H Peng, J Wang, J Wang - Applied Soft Computing, 2017 - Elsevier
Linguistic intuitionistic fuzzy numbers (LIFNs), characterized by a linguistic membership
degree, linguistic non-membership degree, and linguistic indeterminacy degree, represent a …

An investigation on Wu-Leung multi-scale information systems and multi-expert group decision-making

J Zhan, K Zhang, WZ Wu - Expert Systems with Applications, 2021 - Elsevier
In this paper, we establish group decision-making (GDM) idea on Wu-Leung multi-scale
information systems (Wu-Leung MSISs) from the perspective of multi-expert group decision …

An intuitionistic fuzzy entropy approach for supplier selection

M Rahimi, P Kumar, B Moomivand, G Yari - Complex & Intelligent Systems, 2021 - Springer
Due to apparent flexibility of Intuitionistic Fuzzy Set (IFS) concepts in dealing with the
imprecision or uncertainty, these are proving to be quite useful in many application areas for …

Consistency and consensus-driven models to personalize individual semantics of linguistic terms for supporting group decision making with distribution linguistic …

X Tang, Z Peng, Q Zhang, W Pedrycz, S Yang - Knowledge-Based Systems, 2020 - Elsevier
Distribution linguistic preference relations (DLPRs) that model linguistic expressions with the
aid of probabilistic distributions of multiple linguistic terms provide an effective tool to …

A linguistic intuitionistic multi-criteria decision-making method based on the Frank Heronian mean operator and its application in evaluating coal mine safety

H Peng, J Wang, P Cheng - … Journal of Machine Learning and Cybernetics, 2018 - Springer
Coal mine safety has been a pressing issue for many years, and it is a constant and non-
negligible problem that must be addressed during any coal mining process. This paper …

Improving supervised learning classification methods using multigranular linguistic modeling and fuzzy entropy

JA Morente-Molinera, J Mezei… - IEEE transactions on …, 2016 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Obtaining good classification results using supervised learning methods is critical if we want
to obtain a high level of precision in the classification processes. The training data used for …