A Likelihood-Based Qualitative Flexible Approach with Hesitant Fuzzy Linguistic Information

Cognitive Computation

Volumn 8, Issue 4, 2016, Pages 670-683

  Tian, Zhang peng ^a   Wang, Jing ^a   Wang, Jian qiang ^a   Zhang, Hong yu ^a  

^a CENTRAL SOUTH UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Hesitant fuzzy linguistic term sets; Likelihood; Multi criteria decision making; QUALIFLEX

Indexed keywords

EXPERT SYSTEMS; LINGUISTICS;

COMPARATIVE ANALYSIS; HESITANT FUZZY LINGUISTIC TERM SETS; LIKELIHOOD; MULTI CRITERIA DECISION MAKING; MULTI-CRITERIA DECISION ANALYSIS; MULTI-CRITERIA DECISION MAKING PROBLEMS; ORDINAL INFORMATION; QUALIFLEX;

DECISION MAKING;

EID: 84964047929     PISSN: 18669956     EISSN: 18669964     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s12559-016-9400-1     Document Type: Article

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