Hesitant fuzzy linguistic aggregation operators and their applications to multiple attribute group decision making

Journal of Intelligent and Fuzzy Systems

Volumn 26, Issue 5, 2014, Pages 2185-2202

  Zhang, Zhiming ^a,b   Wu, Chong ^a  

^a HARBIN INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (China)

^b HEBEI UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

hesitant fuzzy linguistic aggregation operators; hesitant fuzzy linguistic sets; Hesitant fuzzy sets; hesitant fuzzy uncertain linguistic aggregation operators; hesitant fuzzy uncertain linguistic sets

Indexed keywords

AGGREGATES; DECISION MAKING; FUZZY SETS; MATHEMATICAL OPERATORS;

FUZZY LINGUISTIC AGGREGATIONS; FUZZY LINGUISTIC APPROACH; FUZZY LINGUISTICS; HESITANT FUZZY SETS; MULTIPLE ATTRIBUTE GROUP DECISION MAKINGS (MAGDM); NUMERICAL VALUES; UNCERTAIN LINGUISTIC; UNCERTAIN LINGUISTIC INFORMATIONS;

LINGUISTICS;

EID: 84899029674     PISSN: 10641246     EISSN: 18758967     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3233/IFS-130893     Document Type: Article

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