Hesitant Fuzzy Linguistic VIKOR Method and Its Application in Qualitative Multiple Criteria Decision Making

IEEE Transactions on Fuzzy Systems

Volumn 23, Issue 5, 2015, Pages 1343-1355

  Liao, Huchang ^a,b   Xu, Zeshui ^b   Zeng, Xiao Jun ^c  

^a Shanghai Jiao Tong University   (China)

^b Sichuan University   (China)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MANCHESTER   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Hesitant fuzzy linguistic term set (HFLTS); hesitant fuzzy linguistic VIKOR method; multiple criteria decision making (MCDM); qualitative decision making

Indexed keywords

COMPUTATIONAL LINGUISTICS; LINGUISTICS; NUMERICAL METHODS;

DECISION MAKERS; FUZZY LINGUISTICS; IDEAL SOLUTIONS; ITS APPLICATIONS; MULTI-CRITERIA DECISION MAKING; MULTIPLE CRITERIA DECISION MAKING; QUALITATIVE ASSESSMENTS; QUALITATIVE DECISION MAKING;

DECISION MAKING;

EID: 84928057549     PISSN: 10636706     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TFUZZ.2014.2360556     Document Type: Article

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