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 …

The probabilistic linguistic term set (PLTS) is a powerful technique in representing linguistic
evaluations of individuals or groups in the process of decision making. The aim of this paper …

All the extensions of ordinary fuzzy sets with three-dimensional membership functions such
as intuitionistic fuzzy sets, second type intuitionistic fuzzy sets (or Pythagorean fuzzy sets) …

In the past decades, the rapid urbanisation has driven the prosperity of building industry,
which, however, has led to the consumption of enormous amounts of energy and resources …

The quality function deployment (QFD) is an effective tool to translate the customer
requirements (CRs) to the design requirements (DRs) of a product. The process of selecting …

The increasing complexity of real-world problems drives the experts to consider complex
linguistic expressions instead of single linguistic terms to represent their linguistic opinions …

In the process of decision making, people sometimes may feel more comfortable to express
their preferences by linguistic terms instead of the quantitative form. However, as the basic …

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 …

The use of hesitant information in pairwise comparisons enriches the flexibility of qualitative
decision making and allows for hesitant fuzzy linguistic preference relation (HFLPR). This …

In recent years, hesitant fuzzy linguistic term sets (HFLTSs) have been studied by many
scholars and are becoming gradually mature. However, some shortcomings of HFLTS also …