An Uncertain Linguistic Multi-criteria Group Decision-Making Method Based on a Cloud Model

• Published in: Group decision and negotiation Vol. 24; no. 1; pp. 171 - 192
• Main Authors: Wang, Jian-qiang, Peng, Juan-juan, Zhang, Hong-yu, Liu, Tao, Chen, Xiao-hong
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Dordrecht Springer Netherlands 01.01.2015; Springer Nature B.V
• Subjects: Analysis; Biological and Physical Anthropology; Business and Management; Certainty; Decision Making; Deviation; Fuzzy sets; Group decision making; Group integration; Linguistics; Methods; Preferences; Studies; Values; Uncertainty linguistic; Cloud model; Multi-criteria group decision-making (MCGDM); Interval integrated cloud

In this paper, a decision-making method based on a cloud model is proposed in order to solve multi-criteria group decision-making problems in the situations where the criteria weights are known completely, but the decision-makers’ weights are unknown and the criteria values are interval linguistic v...