An outranking approach for multi-criteria decision-making with hesitant fuzzy linguistic term sets

Information Sciences

Volumn 280, Issue , 2014, Pages 338-351

  Wang, Jian Qiang ^a   Wang, Jing ^a   Chen, Qing Hui ^a   Zhang, Hong Yu ^a   Chen, Xiao Hong ^a  

^a CENTRAL SOUTH UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Hesitant fuzzy linguistic term set; Linguistic decision making; Multiple criteria analysis; Outranking approach

Indexed keywords

DECISION MAKING;

DOMINANCE RELATION; FUZZY LINGUISTICS; HESITANT FUZZY LINGUISTIC TERM SETS; MULTI CRITERIA DECISION MAKING; MULTIPLE CRITERIA ANALYSIS; OUTRANKING APPROACH; OUTRANKING METHODS; RELATIONAL SYSTEMS;

LINGUISTICS;

EID: 84902459097     PISSN: 00200255     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ins.2014.05.012     Document Type: Article

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