In the consensus reaching processes developed in group decision making problems we
need to measure the closeness among experts' opinions in order to obtain a consensus …

The hesitant fuzzy linguistic term sets (HFLTSs), which can be used to represent an expert's
hesitant preferences when assessing a linguistic variable, increase the flexibility of eliciting …

The hesitant fuzzy linguistic term set (HFLTS) has turned out to be a powerful and flexible
technique in representing decision makers' qualitative assessments in the processes of …

In this paper, we propose the concept of distribution assessments in a linguistic term set, and
study the operational laws of linguistic distribution assessments. The weighted averaging …

Consensus reaching processes play an increasingly important role in the resolution of group
decision making problems: a solution acceptable to all the experts participating in a problem …

This study proposes a framework based on the concept of fuzzy sets theory and the VIKOR
method to provide a rational, scientific and systematic process for evaluating the hospital …

The cloud model, which can synthetically describe the randomness and fuzziness of
qualitative concepts and implement uncertain transformations between a qualitative concept …

A dual hesitant fuzzy set (DHFS) consists of two parts, that is, the membership hesitancy
function and the nonmembership hesitancy function, supporting a more exemplary and …

In recent years, several different linguistic computational models for dealing with linguistic
information in processes of computing with words have been proposed. However, until now …

To better deal with imprecise and uncertain information in decision making, the definition of
linguistic intuitionistic fuzzy sets (LIFSs) is introduced, which is characterized by a linguistic …