Multi-criteria Group Decision-Making Approach Based on 2-Tuple Linguistic Aggregation Operators with Multi-hesitant Fuzzy Linguistic Information

International Journal of Fuzzy Systems

Volumn 18, Issue 1, 2016, Pages 81-97

  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

2 Tuple linguistic model; Aggregation operator; Multi criteria group decision making (MCGDM); Multi hesitant fuzzy linguistic term sets (MHFLTSs)

Indexed keywords

DECISION MAKING; FUNCTION EVALUATION; MATHEMATICAL OPERATORS; METADATA;

2-TUPLE LINGUISTIC; 2-TUPLE LINGUISTIC MODELS; AGGREGATION OPERATOR; FUZZY LINGUISTICS; HESITANT FUZZY LINGUISTIC TERM SETS; LINGUISTIC AGGREGATION OPERATORS; LINGUISTIC TERMS; MULTI-CRITERIA GROUP DECISION MAKING; MULTI-CRITERIA GROUP DECISION MAKINGS; MULTI-HESITANT FUZZY LINGUISTIC TERM SET;

SEMANTICS;

EID: 84955452661     PISSN: 15622479     EISSN: 21993211     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s40815-015-0050-3     Document Type: Article

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