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Pairwise Comparison and Distance Measure of Hesitant Fuzzy Linguistic Term Sets

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  • Han-Chen Huang
  • Xiaojun Yang

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A hesitant fuzzy linguistic term set (HFLTS), allowing experts using several possible linguistic terms to assess a qualitative linguistic variable, is very useful to express people’s hesitancy in practical decision-making problems. Up to now, a little research has been done on the comparison and distance measure of HFLTSs. In this paper, we present a comparison method for HFLTSs based on pairwise comparisons of each linguistic term in the two HFLTSs. Then, a distance measure method based on the pairwise comparison matrix of HFLTSs is proposed, and we prove that this distance is equal to the distance of the average values of HFLTSs, which makes the distance measure much more simple. Finally, the pairwise comparison and distance measure methods are utilized to develop two multicriteria decision-making approaches under hesitant fuzzy linguistic environments. The results analysis shows that our methods in this paper are more reasonable.

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  • Han-Chen Huang & Xiaojun Yang, 2014. "Pairwise Comparison and Distance Measure of Hesitant Fuzzy Linguistic Term Sets," Mathematical Problems in Engineering, Hindawi, vol. 2014, pages 1-8, August.
    • Handle: RePEc:hin:jnlmpe:954040
    DOI: 10.1155/2014/954040
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