Distance and similarity measures for hesitant fuzzy linguistic term sets and their application in multi-criteria decision making

Information Sciences

Volumn 271, Issue , 2014, Pages 125-142

  Liao, Huchang ^a,c   Xu, Zeshui ^b   Zeng, Xiao Jun ^c  

^a Shanghai Jiao Tong University   (China)

^b Department of Management Science and System Science   (China)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MANCHESTER   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Distance measure; Hesitant fuzzy linguistic term set; Multi criteria decision making; Similarity measure

Indexed keywords

LINGUISTICS;

DISTANCE MEASURE; FUZZY LINGUISTICS; HESITANT FUZZY LINGUISTIC TERM SETS; LINGUISTIC INFORMATION; MULTI-CRITERIA DECISION MAKING; MULTI-CRITERIA DECISION MAKING PROBLEMS; SATISFACTION DEGREES; SIMILARITY MEASURE;

DECISION MAKING;

EID: 84898829845     PISSN: 00200255     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ins.2014.02.125     Document Type: Article

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