Linguistic Z-number preference relation for group decision making and its application in digital transformation assessment of SMEs

J Chai, Y Su, S Lu - Expert Systems with Applications, 2023 - Elsevier
In the new phase of technological revolution and industrial transformation, the digital
transformation (DT) of small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) has become a critical …

Group decision-making method based on expert credibility with multi-granularity probabilistic linguistic Z-number preference relation

J Zhang, M Li - Information Sciences, 2023 - Elsevier
Multi-granularity probabilistic linguistic Z-number (PLZN) is an effective and flexible tool for
expressing expert opinions. For group decision-making (GDM) problems with multi …

Polar coordinate system to solve an uncertain linguistic Z-number and its application in multicriteria group decision-making

Q Jia, J Hu, E Safwat, A Kamel - Engineering Applications of Artificial …, 2021 - Elsevier
Z-numbers have been a research hotspot because of the significant advantages in revealing
the uncertainty and randomness of information. However, the computation of existing …

Double parameters TOPSIS for multi-attribute linguistic group decision making based on the intuitionistic Z-linguistic variables

S Xian, Z Yang, H Guo - Applied Soft Computing, 2019 - Elsevier
Multi-attribute linguistic group decision making (MALGDM) is one of the most widespread
and important human activities. Therefore, it is extremely significant to study the efficient …

[HTML][HTML] A Novel Approach to Multi-Attribute Group Decision-Making with q-Rung Picture Linguistic Information

L Li, R Zhang, J Wang, X Shang, K Bai - Symmetry, 2018 - mdpi.com
The proposed q-rung orthopair fuzzy set (q-ROFS) and picture fuzzy set (PIFS) are two
powerful tools for depicting fuzziness and uncertainty. This paper proposes a new tool …

Novel Aczel-Alsina operations-based linguistic Z-number aggregation operators and their applications in multi-attribute group decision-making process

B Chen, Q Cai, G Wei, Z Mo - Engineering Applications of Artificial …, 2023 - Elsevier
The change from multi-attribute decision-making (MADM) to multi-attribute group decision-
making (MAGDM) has led to a doubling of data volume and a trend toward multi-attribute …

Z‐uncertain probabilistic linguistic variables and its application in emergency decision making for treatment of COVID‐19 patients

J Chai, S Xian, S Lu - International Journal of Intelligent …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
Probabilistic linguistic term sets (PLTSs) have many applications in the field of group
decision making (GDM) because it includes both linguistic evaluation and probabilistic …

A large group linguistic Z-DEMATEL approach for identifying key performance indicators in hospital performance management

S Jiang, H Shi, W Lin, HC Liu - Applied Soft Computing, 2020 - Elsevier
In hospital management, performance measurement is of vital importance for improving
healthcare service quality. The performance of a healthcare organization is often influenced …

Multi-attribute group decision making based on intuitionistic uncertain linguistic Hamy mean operators with linguistic scale functions and its application to health-care …

Z Liu, H Xu, X Zhao, P Liu, J Li - IEEE Access, 2018 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
How to select an appropriate and effective health-care waste treatment technology (HCW-
TT) is an especially important task in the management of health-care waste (HCW), which …

A prospect theory-based QUALIFLEX for uncertain linguistic Z-number multi-criteria decision-making with unknown weight information

Z Tian, R Nie, J Wang, H Luo… - Journal of Intelligent & …, 2020 - content.iospress.com
Uncertain linguistic Z-numbers (ULZNs), which inherit the prominent characteristics of
linguistic term sets and Z-numbers, can flexibly describe qualitative information as well as its …