Consistency-Driven Automatic Methodology to Set Interval Numerical Scales of 2-Tuple Linguistic Term Sets and Its Use in the Linguistic GDM with Preference Relation

IEEE Transactions on Cybernetics

Volumn 45, Issue 4, 2015, Pages 780-792

  Dong, Yucheng ^a   Herrera Viedma, Enrique ^b  

^a Department of Management Science and System Science   (China)

^b UNIVERSITY OF GRANADA   (Spain)

Author keywords

Consistency; group decision making; interval numerical scale; linguistic preference relation; pairwise comparisons method; the 2 tuple linguistic representation model

Indexed keywords

COMPUTATION THEORY; COMPUTATIONAL LINGUISTICS; DECISION MAKING; FUZZY SETS; NUMERICAL METHODS; NUMERICAL MODELS; SEMANTICS;

2-TUPLE LINGUISTIC REPRESENTATION MODELS; CONSISTENCY; GROUP DECISION MAKING; INTERVAL NUMERICAL SCALE; LINGUISTIC PREFERENCE RELATION; PAIR-WISE COMPARISON;

LINGUISTICS;

EID: 85027951968     PISSN: 21682267     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TCYB.2014.2336808     Document Type: Article

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