Managing multi-granularity linguistic information in qualitative group decision making: an overview

Granular Computing

Volumn 1, Issue 1, 2016, Pages 21-35

  Xu, Zeshui ^a   Wang, Hai ^a  

^a Southeast University   (China)

Author keywords

Linguistic term sets; Multi granularity linguistic term sets; Qualitative group decision making; Unification

Indexed keywords

SEMANTICS;

CARDINALITIES; GROUP DECISION MAKING; LINGUISTIC INFORMATION; LINGUISTIC TERM SET; LINGUISTIC TERMS; MULTI-GRANULARITY; MULTI-GRANULARITY LINGUISTIC TERM SET; QUALITATIVE GROUP DECISION MAKING; UNIFICATION;

DECISION MAKING;

EID: 85009064185     PISSN: 23644966     EISSN: 23644974     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s41066-015-0006-x     Document Type: Article

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