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 …

Possibility distribution-based approach for MAGDM with hesitant fuzzy linguistic information

Z Wu, J Xu - IEEE transactions on cybernetics, 2015 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
In group decision making (GDM) with qualitative settings, experts may require several
possible linguistic values rather than a single term to express their preferences. A hesitant …

Approaches to manage hesitant fuzzy linguistic information based on the cosine distance and similarity measures for HFLTSs and their application in qualitative …

H Liao, Z Xu - Expert Systems with Applications, 2015 - Elsevier
Qualitative and hesitant information is common in practical decision making process. In such
complicated decision making problem, it is flexible for experts to use comparative linguistic …

A hesitant fuzzy linguistic TODIM method based on a score function

C Wei, Z Ren, RM Rodríguez - International Journal of …, 2015 - Taylor & Francis
Hesitant fuzzy linguistic term sets (HFLTSs) are very useful for dealing with the situations in
which the decision makers hesitate among several linguistic terms to assess an alternative …

Novel correlation coefficients between hesitant fuzzy sets and their application in decision making

H Liao, Z Xu, XJ Zeng - Knowledge-Based Systems, 2015 - Elsevier
Hesitant fuzzy set (HFS) is now attracting more and more scholars' attention due to its
efficiency in representing comprehensively uncertain and vague information. Considering …

Multi-criteria evaluation of alternative-fuel vehicles via a hierarchical hesitant fuzzy linguistic model

M Yavuz, B Oztaysi, SC Onar, C Kahraman - Expert Systems with …, 2015 - Elsevier
Decision on alternative-fuel vehicles is one of the most important problems for fleet
operations. In this paper we propose a hierarchical hesitant fuzzy linguistic model that …

Hesitant fuzzy ELECTRE II approach: a new way to handle multi-criteria decision making problems

N Chen, Z Xu - Information Sciences, 2015 - Elsevier
Hesitant fuzzy set (HFS) permits the membership degrees of an element to a set represented
by several possible values. Thus, it provides a suitable means to express uncertain …

Fuzzy decision making based on likelihood-based comparison relations of hesitant fuzzy linguistic term sets and hesitant fuzzy linguistic operators

LW Lee, SM Chen - Information Sciences, 2015 - Elsevier
In this paper, we propose a new fuzzy decision making method and propose a new fuzzy
group decision making method based on the proposed likelihood-based comparison …

Some consistency measures of extended hesitant fuzzy linguistic preference relations

H Wang, Z Xu - Information Sciences, 2015 - Elsevier
Linguistic preference relations (LPRs) enable decision makers to express preferences by
pair-wise comparisons in qualitative setting. The fundamental aspect of LPRs is to measure …

Multi-criteria decision-making based on hesitant fuzzy linguistic term sets: an outranking approach

J Wang, J Wang, H Zhang, X Chen - Knowledge-Based Systems, 2015 - Elsevier
Hesitant fuzzy linguistic term sets (HFLTSs) are introduced to express the hesitance existing
in linguistic evaluation as clearly as possible. However, most existing methods using …