Paper Info
Title
Hesitant Fuzzy Linguistic Analytic Hierarchical Process With Prioritization, Consistency Checking, and Inconsistency Repairing.
Abstract
Analytic hierarchy process (AHP), as one of the most important methods to tackle multiple criteria decision-making problems, has achieved much success over the past several decades. Given that linguistic expressions are much closer than numerical values or single linguistic terms to a human way of thinking and cognition, this paper investigates the AHP with comparative linguistic expressions. After providing the snapshot of classical AHP and its fuzzy extensions, we propose the framework of hesitant fuzzy linguistic AHP, which shows how to yield a decision for qualitative decision-making problems with complex linguistic expressions. First, the comparative linguistic expressions over criteria or alternatives are transformed into hesitant fuzzy linguistic elements and then the hesitant fuzzy linguistic preference relations (HFLPRs) are constructed. Considering that HFLPRs may be inconsistent, we conduct consistency checking and improving processes after obtaining priorities from the HFLPRs based on a linear programming method. Regarding the consistency-improving process, we develop a new way to establish a perfectly consistent HFLPR. The procedure of the hesitant fuzzy linguistic AHP is given in stepwise. Finally, a numerical example concerning the used-car management in a lemon market is given to illustrate the efficiency of the proposed hesitant fuzzy linguistic AHP method.
Year
DOI
Venue
2019
10.1109/ACCESS.2019.2908701
IEEE ACCESS
Keywords
Field
DocType
Analytic hierarchical process,hesitant fuzzy linguistic term set,hesitant fuzzy linguistic preference relation,multiple criteria decision making,used-car management
Computer science,Fuzzy logic,Prioritization,Artificial intelligence,Distributed computing
Journal
Volume
ISSN
Citations 
7
2169-3536
0
PageRank 
References 
Authors
0.34
0
7
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Xiaomei Mi1252.70
Xingli Wu2538.51
Ming Tang36626.92
Huchang Liao4160967.71
Abdullah Al-Barakati501.35
Abdulrahman H. Altalhi67013.68
Francisco Herrera7273911168.49