Minimizing adjusted simple terms in the consensus reaching process with hesitant linguistic assessments in group decision making

Information Sciences

Volumn 297, Issue , 2015, Pages 95-117

  Dong, Yucheng ^a   Chen, Xia ^a   Herrera, Francisco ^b,c  

^a Sichuan University   (China)

^b UNIVERSITY OF GRANADA   (Spain)

^c KING ABDULAZIZ UNIVERSITY   (Saudi Arabia)

Author keywords

Computing with words; Consensus; Group decision making; Hesitant linguistic assessment; Minimum adjustments

Indexed keywords

COMPUTATIONAL LINGUISTICS; LINGUISTICS;

COMPUTING WITH WORD (CWW); CONSENSUS; GROUP DECISION MAKING; LINGUISTIC ASSESSMENT; MINIMUM ADJUSTMENTS;

DECISION MAKING;

EID: 84961289453     PISSN: 00200255     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ins.2014.11.011     Document Type: Article

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