Score function based on concentration degree for probabilistic linguistic term sets: an application to TOPSIS and VIKOR

M Lin, Z Chen, Z Xu, X Gou, F Herrera - Information Sciences, 2021 - Elsevier
Probabilistic linguistic term sets (PLTSs) can express the qualitative information of decision
makers more accurately in the complicated linguistic setting. However, the existing …

Interval‐valued probabilistic linguistic term sets in multi‐criteria group decision making

C Bai, R Zhang, S Shen, C Huang… - International Journal of …, 2018 - Wiley Online Library
The theory of probabilistic linguistic term sets (PLTSs) is very useful in objectively dealing
with the multi‐criteria group decision making (MCGDM) problems in which there is hesitancy …

Comparisons of probabilistic linguistic term sets for multi-criteria decision making

C Bai, R Zhang, L Qian, Y Wu - Knowledge-Based Systems, 2017 - Elsevier
The theory of probabilistic linguistic term sets (PLTSs) is very useful in dealing with the multi-
criteria decision making (MCDM) problems in which there is hesitancy in providing linguistic …

[HTML][HTML] Probabilistic linguistic TODIM approach for multiple attribute decision-making

P Liu, X You - Granular Computing, 2017 - Springer
Probabilistic linguistic term sets (PLTSs) are an effective tool to express preferences with
different weights for different linguistic terms, and the TODIM method is based on prospect …

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 …

A three-way decision method under probabilistic linguistic term sets and its application to Air Quality Index

X Han, C Zhang, J Zhan - Information Sciences, 2022 - Elsevier
As decision-making problems become increasingly complicated nowadays, a growing
number of decision-makers are likely to use probabilistic linguistic term sets (PLTSs) rather …

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 …

Probabilistic linguistic term sets in multi-attribute group decision making

Q Pang, H Wang, Z Xu - Information Sciences, 2016 - Elsevier
When expressing preferences in qualitative setting, several possible linguistic terms with
different weights (represented by probabilities) may be considered at the same time. The …

Clustering algorithms based on correlation coefficients for probabilistic linguistic term sets

M Lin, H Wang, Z Xu, Z Yao… - International Journal of …, 2018 - Wiley Online Library
As a novel and powerful tool, the notion of probabilistic linguistic term sets (PLTSs) can
efficiently model this kind of qualitative assessment information utilizing several possible …

Probabilistic linguistic MULTIMOORA: A multicriteria decision making method based on the probabilistic linguistic expectation function and the improved Borda rule

X Wu, H Liao, Z Xu, A Hafezalkotob… - IEEE transactions on …, 2018 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
The probabilistic linguistic term set (PLTS) is a powerful technique in representing linguistic
evaluations of individuals or groups in the process of decision making. The aim of this paper …