A fuzzy envelope for hesitant fuzzy linguistic term set and its application to multicriteria decision making

Information Sciences

Volumn 258, Issue , 2014, Pages 220-238

  Liu, Hongbin ^a   Rodríguez, Rosa M ^b  

^a NORTHWESTERN POLYTECHNICAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b UNIVERSITY OF JAÉN   (Spain)

Author keywords

Comparative linguistic expression; Fuzzy envelope; Hesitant fuzzy linguistic term set; Multicriteria decision making; OWA operator

Indexed keywords

COMPARATIVE LINGUISTICS; FUZZY ENVELOPE; FUZZY LINGUISTICS; MULTI CRITERIA DECISION MAKING; OWA OPERATORS;

DECISION MAKING;

LINGUISTICS;

EID: 84889096409     PISSN: 00200255     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ins.2013.07.027     Document Type: Article

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