A normalized numerical scaling method for the unbalanced multi-granular linguistic sets

International Journal of Uncertainty, Fuzziness and Knowldege-Based Systems

Volumn 23, Issue 2, 2015, Pages 221-243

  Wang, Baoli ^a,b   Liang, Jiye ^a,c   Qian, Yuhua ^a,c   Dang, Chuangyin ^b  

^a SHANXI UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b YUNCHENG UNIVERSITY   (China)

^c TAIYUAN NORMAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

2 tuple linguistic; multi granular linguistic sets; normalized scaling function; piecewise interpolation; Unbalanced

Indexed keywords

DECISION MAKING; NUMERICAL METHODS; PIECEWISE LINEAR TECHNIQUES; SEMANTICS;

2-TUPLE LINGUISTIC; DECISION MAKERS; LINGUISTIC TERMS; MULTI-GRANULAR LINGUISTIC SET; NORMALIZED SCALING FUNCTION; NUMERICAL SCALINGS; PIECEWISE INTERPOLATION; SCALING FUNCTIONS; SCALING METHOD; UNBALANCED;

INTERPOLATION;

EID: 84929084412     PISSN: 02184885     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1142/S0218488515500099     Document Type: Article

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