Novel basic operational laws for linguistic terms, hesitant fuzzy linguistic term sets and probabilistic linguistic term sets

X Gou, Z Xu - Information Sciences, 2016 - Elsevier
In the process of decision making, people sometimes may feel more comfortable to express
their preferences by linguistic terms instead of the quantitative form. However, as the basic …

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 …

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 …

Connecting the linguistic hierarchy and the numerical scale for the 2-tuple linguistic model and its use to deal with hesitant unbalanced linguistic information

Y Dong, CC Li, F Herrera - Information Sciences, 2016 - Elsevier
The 2-tuple linguistic representation model is widely used as a basis for computing with
words (CW) in linguistic decision making problems. Two different models based on linguistic …

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 …

Hesitant fuzzy linguistic term sets for linguistic decision making: Current developments, issues and challenges

H Wang, Z Xu, XJ Zeng - Information Fusion, 2018 - Elsevier
The fuzzy linguistic approach is frequently considered as a solution for qualitative decision
making. In the traditional framework of linguistic decision making, the representation of …

A multigranularity linguistic group decision‐making method based on hesitant 2‐tuple sets

C Wei, H Liao - International Journal of Intelligent Systems, 2016 - Wiley Online Library
Hesitant fuzzy linguistic term set (HFLTS) is a very useful technology in dealing with decision‐
making problems where people have hesitancy in providing their linguistic assessments …

Personalized individual semantics based on consistency in hesitant linguistic group decision making with comparative linguistic expressions

CC Li, RM Rodríguez, L Martínez, Y Dong… - Knowledge-Based …, 2018 - Elsevier
In decision making problems, decision makers may prefer to use more flexible linguistic
expressions instead of using only one linguistic term to express their preferences. The …

Entropy measures of probabilistic linguistic term sets

H Liu, L Jiang, Z Xu - International Journal of Computational Intelligence …, 2018 - Springer
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 …

Proportional hesitant fuzzy linguistic term set for multiple criteria group decision making

ZS Chen, KS Chin, YL Li, Y Yang - Information Sciences, 2016 - Elsevier
The theory of hesitant fuzzy linguistic term sets (HFLTSs) is a powerful technique used to
describe hesitant situations, which are typically assessed by experts using several possible …