The hesitant fuzzy linguistic term set (HFLTS) has gained great success as it can be used to
represent several linguistic terms or comparative linguistic expressions together with some …

Multi-criteria group decision making (MCGDM) is a common activity in human-beings' daily
life. In real-world problems is common that decision makers prefer to use linguistic values …

Emergency decision-making processes, always require decision makers (DMs) to express
the majority of their opinions in linguistic terms (LTs). Since there are, in most cases, many …

Evaluating startup companies is an important management process for technology business
incubators and it is also a typical multicriteria decision‐making (MCDM) problem. There exist …

A hesitant fuzzy linguistic term set (HFLTS) is defined as a subset of ordered consecutive
linguistic terms, and it has been successfully applied to deal with experts hesitation in …

Linguistic hesitant fuzzy set (LHFS), a special hesitant fuzzy set (HFS) defined on linguistic
term set (LTS), not only can express decision makers'(DMs') qualitative preferences, but can …

The probabilistic linguistic term sets (PLTSs) are powerful to deal with the hesitant linguistic
situation in which each provided linguistic term has a probability. The PLTSs contain …

Extended hesitant fuzzy linguistic term set (EHFLTS) is an effective means to assess the
hesitant qualitative information in multi-criteria group decision-making environment. We …

The production, operation, and transportation stages of wind turbines involve elements of
risk with regard to occupational health and safety. In a previous study, a risk prioritization …

To improve the ability and efficiency of the hospital management, it is needed for us to
handle the decision making problems so as to assist the hospital decision support systems …