Possibility Distribution-Based Approach for MAGDM with Hesitant Fuzzy Linguistic Information

IEEE Transactions on Cybernetics

Volumn 46, Issue 3, 2016, Pages 694-705

  Wu, Zhibin ^a   Xu, Jiuping ^a  

^a Sichuan University   (China)

Author keywords

Aggregation operator; consensus process; hesitant fuzzy linguistic term set (HFLTS); possibility distribution; selection process

Indexed keywords

COMPUTATIONAL LINGUISTICS; DECISION MAKING; MATHEMATICAL OPERATORS; STATISTICAL METHODS;

AGGREGATION OPERATOR; FRAMEWORK MODELS; FUZZY LINGUISTICS; GROUP DECISION MAKING; LINGUISTIC VALUES; MULTIPLE ATTRIBUTES; ORDERED WEIGHTED AVERAGE OPERATORS; POSSIBILITY DISTRIBUTIONS;

LINGUISTICS;

EID: 84926210927     PISSN: 21682267     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TCYB.2015.2413894     Document Type: Article

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