This editorial of the special issue “Representing, Processing, and Learning Preferences:
Theoretical and Practical Challenges” surveys past and ongoing research on preferences in …

This article surveys probablistic approaches to modeling information retrieval. The basic
concepts of probabilistic approaches to information retrieval are outlined and the principles …

Dealing with uncertainty is always a challenging problem, and different tools have been
proposed to deal with it. Recently, a new model that is based on hesitant fuzzy sets has …

Quality function deployment (QFD) is a well-known tool for quality management. With its
systematic operation mechanism for translating customer requirements (CRs) into …

The complexity and impact of many real world decision making problems lead to the
necessity of considering multiple points of view, building group decision making problems in …

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 …

The fuzzy linguistic approach has been applied successfully to many problems. However,
there is a limitation of this approach imposed by its information representation model and the …

Decision making is a process common to human beings. The uncertainty and fuzziness of
problems demand the use of the fuzzy linguistic approach to model qualitative aspects of …

A study on the steps to follow in linguistic decision analysis is presented in a context of multi-
criteria/multi-person decision making. Three steps are established for solving a multi-criteria …

In those problems that deal with multiple sources of linguistic information we can find
problems defined in contexts where the linguistic assessments are assessed in linguistic …