Two improved N-two-stage K-means clustering aggregation algorithmic paradigms for HFLTS possibility distributions

SH Xiong, YJ Xin, ZS Chen, RM Rodríguez, SH Feng… - Information …, 2023 - Elsevier
The available method based on statistical principles for aggregating hesitant fuzzy linguistic
term set (HFLTS) possibility distribution is the N-two-stage algorithmic aggregation paradigm …

K-means clustering for the aggregation of HFLTS possibility distributions: N-two-stage algorithmic paradigm

ZS Chen, X Zhang, W Pedrycz, XJ Wang… - Knowledge-Based …, 2021 - Elsevier
The use of the hesitant fuzzy linguistic term sets (HFLTSs) has recently become an important
trend in fuzzy decision making, and aggregating HFLTSs and their extensions has now …

Two-stage aggregation paradigm for HFLTS possibility distributions: A hierarchical clustering perspective

ZS Chen, L Martínez, KS Chin, KL Tsui - Expert Systems with applications, 2018 - Elsevier
The integration of possibility distribution into hesitant fuzzy linguistic term set (HFLTS) adds
an extra dimension to individual opinion approximation process and significantly leads to …

A clustering method for large-scale group decision-making with multi-stage hesitant fuzzy linguistic terms

Z Ma, J Zhu, K Ponnambalam, S Zhang - Information Fusion, 2019 - Elsevier
A large-scale group decision-making (LGDM) problem is studied from the perspective of
multi-stage hesitant fuzzy linguistic term sets (MHFLTSs). Solving an LGDM problem …

Multi-criteria group decision-making approach based on 2-tuple linguistic aggregation operators with multi-hesitant fuzzy linguistic information

J Wang, J Wang, H Zhang, X Chen - International Journal of Fuzzy …, 2016 - Springer
In practice, when the frequency of a linguistic term in evaluation information is greater than
one, a consensus has been reached and this frequency is regarded to be one by default …

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 …

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 …

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 …

Managing multigranular unbalanced hesitant fuzzy linguistic information in multiattribute large-scale group decision making: A linguistic distribution-based approach

Z Zhang, W Yu, L Martínez… - IEEE Transactions on …, 2019 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
With the increase of technological and societal demands, more and more decision makers
are involved in the process of group decision making, which is called large-scale group …

Generalizing linguistic distributions in hesitant decision context

G Zhang, Y Wu, Y Dong - International Journal of Computational …, 2017 - Springer
The hesitant fuzzy linguistic term set (HFLTS) and the linguistic distribution (LD) are
becoming popular tools to describe decision makers' linguistic preferences. By combining …