Multi-criteria decision-making based on hesitant fuzzy linguistic term sets: An outranking approach

Knowledge-Based Systems

Volumn 86, Issue , 2015, Pages 224-236

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

^a CENTRAL SOUTH UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b CENTRAL SOUTH UNIVERSITY OF FORESTRY AND TECHNOLOGY   (China)

Author keywords

Directional Hausdorff distance; Hesitant fuzzy linguistic term sets (HFLTSs); Linguistic decision making; Multi criteria decision making (MCDM); Outranking approach

Indexed keywords

COMPUTATIONAL LINGUISTICS; GEOMETRY; LINGUISTICS; METADATA; NUMERICAL METHODS; SUPPLY CHAIN MANAGEMENT;

COMPARATIVE ANALYSIS; DOMINANCE RELATION; HAUSDORFF DISTANCE; HESITANT FUZZY LINGUISTIC TERM SETS; INFORMATION DISTORTION; MULTI-CRITERIA DECISION MAKING; OUTRANKING APPROACH; QUALITATIVE INFORMATION;

DECISION MAKING;

EID: 84938417904     PISSN: 09507051     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.knosys.2015.06.007     Document Type: Article

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