Approaches to manage hesitant fuzzy linguistic information based on the cosine distance and similarity measures for HFLTSs and their application in qualitative decision making

Expert Systems with Applications

Volumn 42, Issue 12, 2015, Pages 5328-5336

  Liao, Huchang ^a   Xu, Zeshui ^a  

^a Sichuan University   (China)

Author keywords

Cosine distance based HFL TOPSIS method; Cosine distance based HFL VIKOR method; Hesitant fuzzy linguistic cosine distance measure; Hesitant fuzzy linguistic cosine similarity measure; Hesitant fuzzy linguistic term set; Multiple criteria decision making

Indexed keywords

COMPUTATIONAL LINGUISTICS; DECISION MAKING; NUMERICAL METHODS;

COSINE SIMILARITY MEASURES; DISTANCE MEASURE; DISTANCE-BASED; FUZZY LINGUISTICS; MULTIPLE CRITERIA DECISION MAKING; TOPSIS METHOD;

LINGUISTICS;

EID: 84939958334     PISSN: 09574174     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.eswa.2015.02.017     Document Type: Article

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