An overview on the roles of fuzzy set techniques in big data processing: Trends, challenges and opportunities

H Wang, Z Xu, W Pedrycz - Knowledge-Based Systems, 2017 - Elsevier
In the era of big data, we are facing with an immense volume and high velocity of data with
complex structures. Data can be produced by online and offline transactions, social …

Modeling complex linguistic expressions in qualitative decision making: An overview

H Wang, Z Xu, XJ Zeng - Knowledge-Based Systems, 2018 - Elsevier
The increasing complexity of real-world problems drives the experts to consider complex
linguistic expressions instead of single linguistic terms to represent their linguistic opinions …

A survey of decision-making methods with probabilistic linguistic information: bibliometrics, preliminaries, methodologies, applications and future directions

H Liao, X Mi, Z Xu - Fuzzy Optimization and Decision Making, 2020 - Springer
Probabilistic linguistic term set (PLTS) has been proposed to tackle qualitative information
efficiently in the decision-making process to achieve computing with expressions, which can …

Hesitant fuzzy linguistic term set and its application in decision making: a state-of-the-art survey

H Liao, Z Xu, E Herrera-Viedma, F Herrera - International Journal of Fuzzy …, 2018 - Springer
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 …

GRP and CRITIC method for probabilistic uncertain linguistic MAGDM and its application to site selection of hospital constructions

S Wang, G Wei, J Lu, J Wu, C Wei, X Chen - Soft Computing, 2022 - Springer
The probabilistic uncertain linguistic term sets could depict uncertain information well and
the grey relational projection (GRP) method is appropriate to rank various alternatives. In …

EDAS method for probabilistic linguistic multiple attribute group decision making and their application to green supplier selection

G Wei, C Wei, Y Guo - Soft Computing, 2021 - Springer
In today's world, environmental problems are becoming increasingly serious, and countries
and regions are attaching great importance to them. Low-carbon and circular economy have …

Double hierarchy hesitant fuzzy linguistic term set and MULTIMOORA method: A case of study to evaluate the implementation status of haze controlling measures

X Gou, H Liao, Z Xu, F Herrera - Information Fusion, 2017 - Elsevier
In recent years, hesitant fuzzy linguistic term sets (HFLTSs) have been studied by many
scholars and are becoming gradually mature. However, some shortcomings of HFLTS also …

Novel operations of PLTSs based on the disparity degrees of linguistic terms and their use in designing the probabilistic linguistic ELECTRE III method

H Liao, L Jiang, B Lev, H Fujita - Applied Soft Computing, 2019 - Elsevier
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 …

A linear programming method for multiple criteria decision making with probabilistic linguistic information

H Liao, L Jiang, Z Xu, J Xu, F Herrera - Information Sciences, 2017 - Elsevier
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 …

Probabilistic dual hesitant fuzzy set and its application in risk evaluation

Z Hao, Z Xu, H Zhao, Z Su - Knowledge-Based Systems, 2017 - Elsevier
The concurrence of randomness and imprecision widely exists in real-world problems. To
describe the aleatory and epistemic uncertainty in a single framework and take more …