Managing information measures for hesitant fuzzy linguistic term sets and their applications in designing clustering algorithms

M Tang, H Liao - Information Fusion, 2019 - Elsevier
Abstract Recently, the Hesitant Fuzzy Linguistic Term Sets (HFLTSs) have been widely used
to address cognitive complex linguistic information because of its advantage in representing …

Distance and similarity measures for hesitant fuzzy linguistic term sets and their application in multi-criteria decision making

H Liao, Z Xu, XJ Zeng - Information Sciences, 2014 - Elsevier
The hesitant fuzzy linguistic term sets (HFLTSs), which can be used to represent an expert's
hesitant preferences when assessing a linguistic variable, increase the flexibility of eliciting …

Hesitancy degree-based correlation measures for hesitant fuzzy linguistic term sets and their applications in multiple criteria decision making

H Liao, X Gou, Z Xu, XJ Zeng, F Herrera - Information Sciences, 2020 - Elsevier
The hesitant fuzzy linguistic term set (HFLTS) turns out to be useful in representing people's
hesitant qualitative information. The aim of this paper is to investigate new correlation …

Qualitative decision making with correlation coefficients of hesitant fuzzy linguistic term sets

H Liao, Z Xu, XJ Zeng, JM Merigó - Knowledge-Based Systems, 2015 - Elsevier
The hesitant fuzzy linguistic term set (HFLTS) is a new and flexible tool in representing
hesitant qualitative information in decision making. Correlation measures and correlation …

Approaches to manage hesitant fuzzy linguistic information based on the cosine distance and similarity measures for HFLTSs and their application in qualitative …

H Liao, Z Xu - Expert Systems with Applications, 2015 - Elsevier
Qualitative and hesitant information is common in practical decision making process. In such
complicated decision making problem, it is flexible for experts to use comparative linguistic …

Novel distance and similarity measures on hesitant fuzzy linguistic term sets with application to pattern recognition

Z Zhang, J Lin, R Miao, L Zhou - Journal of Intelligent & Fuzzy …, 2019 - content.iospress.com
As two important features of hesitant fuzzy linguistic term sets (HFLTSs), distance and
similarity measures have been applied widely in many fields such as pattern recognition …

Entropy measures for hesitant fuzzy linguistic term sets using the concept of interval-transformed hesitant fuzzy elements

B Farhadinia, E Herrera-Viedma - International Journal of Fuzzy Systems, 2018 - Springer
This article first aims to critically review the existing literature on entropy measures for
hesitant fuzzy linguistic term set (HFLTS) and then exploits a bridge between HFLTSs and …

Distance measures for hesitant fuzzy linguistic sets and their applications in multiple criteria decision making

D Liu, X Chen, D Peng - International Journal of Fuzzy Systems, 2018 - Springer
Hesitant fuzzy linguistic term sets (HFLTSs) provide a linguistic and computational basis to
increase the flexibility and richness of linguistic elicitation based on the fuzzy linguistic …

[HTML][HTML] Vector similarity measures of hesitant fuzzy linguistic term sets and their applications

Y Song, J Hu - PLoS One, 2017 - journals.plos.org
In decision making, similarity measure and distance between two objects are crucial to be
able to determine the relationship between those objects. Many researchers have received …

A novel linguistic group decision-making model based on extended hesitant fuzzy linguistic term sets

C Wei, N Zhao, X Tang - International Journal of Uncertainty …, 2015 - World Scientific
Hesitant fuzzy linguistic term set (HFLTS) is a set with ordered consecutive linguistic terms,
and is very useful in addressing the situations where people are hesitant in providing their …