Deriving decision makers' weights in group decision making: An overview of objective methods

E Koksalmis, Ö Kabak - Information Fusion, 2019 - Elsevier
In group decision making problems, it is almost impossible to have a homogeneous group of
decision makers whose experiences, attitudes, knowledge are the same or similar …

A bibliometric analysis of aggregation operators

F Blanco-Mesa, E León-Castro, JM Merigó - Applied Soft Computing, 2019 - Elsevier
Aggregation operators consist of mathematical functions that enable the combining and
processing of different types of information. The aim of this work is to present the main …

Computing with comparative linguistic expressions and symbolic translation for decision making: ELICIT information

ÁL Romero, RM Rodríguez… - IEEE Transactions on …, 2019 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Many real-world decision making (DM) problems present changing contexts in which
uncertainty or vagueness appear. Such uncertainty has been often modeled based on the …

[HTML][HTML] Linguistic spherical fuzzy aggregation operators and their applications in multi-attribute decision making problems

H Jin, S Ashraf, S Abdullah, M Qiyas, M Bano, S Zeng - Mathematics, 2019 - mdpi.com
The key objective of the proposed work in this paper is to introduce a generalized form of
linguistic picture fuzzy set, so-called linguistic spherical fuzzy set (LSFS), combining the …

Flexible linguistic expressions and consensus reaching with accurate constraints in group decision-making

Y Wu, Y Dong, J Qin, W Pedrycz - IEEE transactions on …, 2019 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Various linguistic expressions have been presented to model the flexibility of linguistic
preference expressions and to support the consensus reaching in linguistic group decision …

Evaluation of the Impact of Selected Weighting Methods on the Results of the TOPSIS Technique

R Vavrek - International Journal of Information Technology & …, 2019 - World Scientific
The present research deals with selected multi-criteria methods identified according to
available literature sources as a suitable instrument for the comprehensive evaluation of a …

Unbalanced double hierarchy linguistic term set: The TOPSIS method for multi-expert qualitative decision making involving green mine selection

Z Fu, H Liao - Information Fusion, 2019 - Elsevier
The double hierarchy linguistic term set is a linguistic technique to elaborately and
accurately represent complex linguistic information for qualitative decision-making …

A framework for multi-attribute group decision-making using double hierarchy hesitant fuzzy linguistic term set

R Krishankumar, LS Subrajaa… - International Journal of …, 2019 - Springer
As a generalization to hesitant fuzzy linguistic term set (HFLTS), double hierarchy hesitant
fuzzy linguistic term set (DHHFLTS) is presented which circumvents the weakness of HFLTS …

Multi‐attribute group decision‐making methods based on q‐rung orthopair fuzzy linguistic sets

H Wang, Y Ju, P Liu - International Journal of Intelligent …, 2019 - Wiley Online Library
With the continuous development of the economy and society, decision‐making problems
and decision‐making scenarios have become more complex. The q‐rung orthopair fuzzy set …

A graphical method for ranking Atanassov's intuitionistic fuzzy values using the uncertainty index and entropy

MI Ali, F Feng, T Mahmood, I Mahmood… - … Journal of Intelligent …, 2019 - Wiley Online Library
Many different types of ranking methods based on the score and accuracy functions of
intuitionistic fuzzy values (IFVs) exist in the literature. The notion of knowledge bases, as in …