On the use of multiplicative consistency in hesitant fuzzy linguistic preference relations

Knowledge-Based Systems

Volumn 72, Issue , 2014, Pages 13-27

  Zhang, Zhiming ^a   Wu, Chong ^b  

^a HEBEI UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b HARBIN INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (China)

Author keywords

Group decision making; Hesitant fuzzy linguistic preference relation; Hesitant fuzzy linguistic term set; Hesitant fuzzy set; Multiplicative consistency

Indexed keywords

DECISION MAKING; MATHEMATICAL OPERATORS;

CONSISTENCY INDEX; FUZZY LINGUISTIC AGGREGATIONS; FUZZY LINGUISTIC PREFERENCE RELATIONS; FUZZY LINGUISTICS; GROUP DECISION MAKING; MULTIPLICATIVE CONSISTENCY; PAIRED COMPARISON; PREFERENCE STRUCTURES;

LINGUISTICS;

EID: 84909588038     PISSN: 09507051     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.knosys.2014.08.026     Document Type: Article

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