Operators and comparisons of hesitant fuzzy linguistic term sets

IEEE Transactions on Fuzzy Systems

Volumn 22, Issue 3, 2014, Pages 575-585

  Wei, Cuiping ^a   Zhao, Na ^a   Tang, Xijin ^b  

^a QUFU NORMAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b CHINESE ACADEMY OF SCIENCES   (China)

Author keywords

Hesitant fuzzy linguistic term sets (HFLTSs); multicriteria decision making (MCDM); possibility degree formula

Indexed keywords

BEHAVIORAL RESEARCH; DECISION MAKING;

AGGREGATION OPERATOR; AGGREGATION THEORY; COMPARISON METHODS; HESITANT FUZZY LINGUISTIC TERM SETS; IMPORTANCE WEIGHTS; LINGUISTIC ASSESSMENT; MULTI-CRITERIA DECISION MAKING; POSSIBILITY DEGREE FORMULAS;

LINGUISTICS;

EID: 84901985330     PISSN: 10636706     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TFUZZ.2013.2269144     Document Type: Article

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