A linguistic information granulation model and its penalty function-based co-evolutionary PSO solution approach for supporting GDM with distributed linguistic …

Q Zhang, T Huang, X Tang, K Xu, W Pedrycz - Information Fusion, 2022 - Elsevier
This study focuses on linguistic information operational realization through information
granulation in group decision-making (GDM) scenarios where the preference information …

A consistency and consensus-driven approach for granulating linguistic information in GDM with distributed linguistic preference relations

H Su, Q Wu, X Tang, T Huang - Artificial Intelligence Review, 2023 - Springer
This study considers the linguistic information granulation in GDM scenarios where both the
outcomes of pairwise comparisons coming from decision makers (DMs) over alternatives …

Linguistic information-based granular computing based on a tournament selection operator-guided PSO for supporting multi-attribute group decision-making with …

T Huang, X Tang, S Zhao, Q Zhang, W Pedrycz - Information Sciences, 2022 - Elsevier
This study investigates linguistic information-based granular computing for supporting multi-
attribute group decision-making where relative importance of experts/attributes, and …

Flexible linguistic expressions and consensus reaching with accurate constraints in group decision-making

Y Wu, Y Dong, J Qin, W Pedrycz - IEEE transactions on …, 2019 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Various linguistic expressions have been presented to model the flexibility of linguistic
preference expressions and to support the consensus reaching in linguistic group decision …

Managing personalized individual semantics and consensus in linguistic distribution large-scale group decision making

J Xiao, X Wang, H Zhang - Information Fusion, 2020 - Elsevier
A linguistic distribution assessment is an effective approach to represent uncertain
preferences in large-scale group decision making (LSGDM). The same word often signifies …

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 …

Consistency improvement and local consensus adjustment for probabilistic linguistic preference relations considering personalized individual semantics

X Ma, J Zhu, G Kou, J Zhan - Information Sciences, 2024 - Elsevier
To address the challenge of facilitating overall problem solving and improving the overall
efficiency of intelligent systems efforts through group decision making (GDM) by experts at …

Consistency and consensus improvement models driven by a personalized normalization method with probabilistic linguistic preference relations

Z Tian, R Nie, J Wang - Information Fusion, 2021 - Elsevier
Probabilistic linguistic preference relation (PLPR) provides an effective and flexible tool with
which preference degrees of decision-makers can be captured when they vacillatingly …

Consensus-based linguistic distribution large-scale group decision making using statistical inference and regret theory

F Jin, J Liu, L Zhou, L Martínez - Group Decision and Negotiation, 2021 - Springer
Large-scale group decision-making (LSGDM) deals with complex decision-making
problems which involve a large number of decision makers (DMs). Such a complex scenario …

A consensus model of probabilistic linguistic preference relations in group decision making based on feedback mechanism

A Liu, H Qiu, H Lu, X Guo - IEEE Access, 2019 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Owing to the important role in group decision making (GDM), the consensus research has
received extensive attention from both theoretical and applied perspectives in recent years …