A New Fusion Method of Fuzzy Numbers and Linguistic Terms Based on Individual Semantics in Mixed Decision Making Problems

• Published in: International journal of fuzzy systems Vol. 27; no. 6; pp. 1887 - 1903
• Main Authors: Ren, Fangling, Hao, Fei
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Berlin/Heidelberg Springer Berlin Heidelberg 01.09.2025; Springer Nature B.V
• Subjects: Alternatives; Artificial Intelligence; Assessments; Computation; Computational Intelligence; Decision analysis; Decision making; Engineering; Fuzzy sets; Hierarchies; Linguistics; Management Science; Operations Research; Semantics; Subject specialists; Words (language); Linguistic evaluation; Fuzzy multiple attribute group decision making; Computing with words; Aggregation operator; Fuzzy number evaluation

Because several groups of decision makers participate in modern fuzzy multiple attribute decision making problems, membership functions and linguistic terms may be simultaneously utilized by decision makers to represent assessments of alternatives. Due to linguistic terms mean different things to di...