Multi-criteria decision-making methods based on the Hausdorff distance of hesitant fuzzy linguistic numbers

Soft Computing

Volumn 20, Issue 4, 2016, Pages 1621-1633

  Wang, Jian qiang ^a   Wu, Jia ting ^a   Wang, Jing ^a   Zhang, Hong yu ^a   Chen, Xiao hong ^a  

^a CENTRAL SOUTH UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Hausdorff distance; Hesitant fuzzy linguistic set; Multi criteria decision making; TODIM; TOPSIS

Indexed keywords

BEHAVIORAL RESEARCH; COMPUTATIONAL LINGUISTICS; FUZZY SETS; GEOMETRY; LINGUISTICS;

FUZZY LINGUISTICS; HAUSDORFF DISTANCE; MULTI CRITERIA DECISION MAKING; TODIM; TOPSIS;

DECISION MAKING;

EID: 84961054562     PISSN: 14327643     EISSN: 14337479     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00500-015-1609-5     Document Type: Article

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