Decision making methods based on fuzzy aggregation operators: Three decades review from 1986 to 2017

A Mardani, M Nilashi, EK Zavadskas… - … Journal of Information …, 2018 - World Scientific
In many real-life decision making (DM) situations, the available information is vague or
imprecise. To adequately solve decision problems with vague or imprecise information …

[HTML][HTML] 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 …

Grey relational analysis between hesitant fuzzy sets with applications to pattern recognition

G Sun, X Guan, X Yi, Z Zhou - Expert Systems with Applications, 2018 - Elsevier
Abstract Hesitant Fuzzy Sets (HFSs) is an important tool to deal with uncertain and vague
information. There have been lots of fuzzy measures for it from different views. However …

An innovative TOPSIS approach based on hesitant fuzzy correlation coefficient and its applications

G Sun, X Guan, X Yi, Z Zhou - Applied Soft Computing, 2018 - Elsevier
The technique for order preference by similarity to ideal solution (TOPSIS) is one of the most
popular and efficient methods in solving the multiple criteria/attribute decision making …

Clustering algorithms based on correlation coefficients for probabilistic linguistic term sets

M Lin, H Wang, Z Xu, Z Yao… - International Journal of …, 2018 - Wiley Online Library
As a novel and powerful tool, the notion of probabilistic linguistic term sets (PLTSs) can
efficiently model this kind of qualitative assessment information utilizing several possible …

[HTML][HTML] D-intuitionistic hesitant fuzzy sets and their application in multiple attribute decision making

X Li, X Chen - Cognitive Computation, 2018 - Springer
Hesitant fuzzy sets (HFSs) and generalized hesitant fuzzy sets (GHFSs) provide useful tools
for uncertain information processing in situations in which decision makers have doubts …

[HTML][HTML] Entropy for hesitant fuzzy sets based on Hausdorff metric with construction of hesitant fuzzy TOPSIS

Z Hussain, MS Yang - International Journal of Fuzzy Systems, 2018 - Springer
In this paper, new entropy measures for hesitant fuzzy sets (HFSs) are proposed. Measuring
uncertainty for an HFS is computed by an amount of distinction between an HFS and its …

Multiple-attribute decision-making method based on the correlation coefficient between dual hesitant fuzzy linguistic term sets

R Zhang, Z Li, H Liao - Knowledge-Based Systems, 2018 - Elsevier
Hesitant fuzzy linguistic term sets (HFLTS) and dual hesitant fuzzy sets (DHFS) are two
important branches of fuzzy mathematics, both of which have been widely applied in …

A new methodology for hesitant fuzzy emergency decision making with unknown weight information

X Liu, Z Wang, S Zhang - Complexity, 2018 - Wiley Online Library
Once an emergency event occurs, effective emergency measures should be taken. It is
known that the emergency event possesses characteristics of limited time and information …

Power average-based score function and extension rule of hesitant fuzzy set and the hesitant power average operators

H Liao, X Wu, A Keikha… - Journal of intelligent & …, 2018 - content.iospress.com
Hesitant fuzzy set, as an extension of fuzzy set, has absorbed many researchers from
various scientific backgrounds to deal with uncertainty. Solving decision-making problems is …