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An overview on managing additive consistency of reciprocal preference relations for consistency-driven decision making and Fusion: Taxonomy and future directions
The file attached to this record is the author's final peer reviewed version. The Publisher's final version can be found by following the DOI link.The reciprocal preference relation (RPR) is a powerful tool to represent decision makers’ preferences in decision making problems. In recent years, various types of RPRs have been reported and investigated, some of them being the ‘classical’ RPRs, interval-valued RPRs and hesitant RPRs. Additive consistency is one of the most commonly used property to measure the consistency of RPRs, with many methods developed to manage additive consistency of RPRs. To provide a clear perspective on additive consistency issues of RPRs, this paper reviews the consistency measurements of the different types of RPRs. Then, consistency-driven decision making and information fusion methods are also reviewed and classified into four main types: consistency improving methods; consistency-based methods to manage incomplete RPRs; consistency control in consensus decision making methods; and consistency-driven linguistic decision making methods. Finally, with respect to insights gained from prior researches, further directions for the research are proposed
Hesitant Fuzzy Linguistic Multicriteria Decision-Making Method Based on Generalized Prioritized Aggregation Operator
Based on linguistic term sets and hesitant fuzzy sets, the concept of hesitant fuzzy linguistic sets was introduced. The focus of this paper is the multicriteria decision-making (MCDM) problems in which the criteria are in different priority levels and the criteria values take the form of hesitant fuzzy linguistic numbers (HFLNs). A new approach to solving these problems is proposed, which is based on the generalized prioritized aggregation operator of HFLNs. Firstly, the new operations and comparison method for HFLNs are provided and some linguistic scale functions are applied. Subsequently, two prioritized aggregation operators and a generalized prioritized aggregation operator of HFLNs are developed and applied to MCDM problems. Finally, an illustrative example is given to illustrate the effectiveness and feasibility of the proposed method, which are then compared to the existing approach
Underground Mining Method Selection With the Hesitant Fuzzy Linguistic Gained and Lost Dominance Score Method
Underground mining method selection is a critical decision problem for available underground
ore deposits in exploitation design. As many comprehensive factors, such as physical parameters, economic
benefits, and environmental effects, are claimed to be established and a group of experts are involved in the
issue, the underground mining method selection is deemed as a multiple experts multiple criteria decision
making problem. Classical mining method assessment exists some gaps due to the way of representing
opinions. To address this matter, a hesitant fuzzy linguistic gained and lost dominance score method is
investigated in this paper. To enhance the flexibility and gain more information, mining planning engineers
are allowed to convey their knowledge using hesitant fuzzy linguistic term sets in the underground mining
method selection process. A novel score function of hesitant fuzzy linguistic term set is introduced to compare any hesitant fuzzy linguistic term sets. Then, based on the score function, a weight determining function
is proposed to calculate the weights of criteria, which can magnify the ‘‘importance’’ and ‘‘unimportance’’
of criteria. To select the mining method, the hesitant fuzzy linguistic gained and dominance score method
is developed. A case study concerning selecting a extraction method for a real mine in Yunnan province of
China is presented to illustrate the applicability of the proposed method. The effectiveness of the proposed
method is finally verified by comparing with other ranking methodsNational Natural Science Foundation of China under Grant 71501135 and Grant 717711562019 Sichuan Planning Project of Social Science under Grant SC18A0072018 Key Project of the Key Research
Institute of Humanities and Social Sciences in Sichuan Province under Grant Xq18A01 and Grant LYC18-02Electronic
Commerce and Modern Logistics Research Center Program, Key Research Base of Humanities and Social Science, Sichuan Provincial
Education Department, under Grant DSWL18-2Spark Project of Innovation, Sichuan University, under Grant 2018hhs-43Scientific Research Foundation for Excellent Young Scholars, Sichuan University, under Grant 2016SCU04A23
Hesitant Fuzzy Linguistic Analytic Hierarchical Process With Prioritization, Consistency Checking, and Inconsistency Repairing
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
ef ciency of the proposed hesitant fuzzy linguistic AHP method.This work was supported in part by the National Natural Science Foundation of China under Grant 71771156, in part by the 2019 Sichuan
Planning Project of Social Science under Grant SC18A007, in part by the 2019 Soft Science Project of Sichuan Science and Technology
Department under Grant 2019JDR0141, and in part by the Project of Innovation at Sichuan University under Grant 2018hhs-43
The risk assessment of construction project investment based on prospect theory with linguistic preference orderings
Multiple experts decision-making (MEDM) can be regarded as a
situation where a group of experts are invited to provide their
opinions by evaluating the given alternatives, and then select the
optimal alternative(s). As a useful linguistic expression model, linguistic
preference orderings (LPOs) were established in which the
order of alternatives and the relationships between two adjacent
alternatives are fused well. Considering that prospect theory has
the superiority in depicting risk attitudes (risk seeking for losses
and risk aversion for gains) during the uncertain decision-making
process, this paper develops a consensus model based on prospect
theory to deal with MEDM problems with LPOs. Firstly, each
LPO provided by expert is transformed into the responding
DHLPR with complete consistency. Then, the reference point of
expert is determined and the prospect preference matrix is established.
Moreover, we can obtain the overall prospect consensus
degree for a MEDM problem by calculating the similarity degree
between individual and collective prospect preference matrix.
Furthermore, a consensus improvement method is developed to
complete the consensus reaching process. Finally, we apply the
proposed method to deal with a practical MEDM problem involving
the construction project investment, and make some comparative
analyses with existing methods.National Natural Science Foundation of China (NSFC)
71771155China Postdoctoral Science Foundation
2020M680151Sichuan Postdoctoral Science special FoundationSichuan University Postdoctoral Interdisciplinary Innovation Startup FoundationFundamental Research Funds for the Central Universities
YJ202015European Union (EU)
TIN2016-75850-RSichuan Province System Science and Enterprise Development Research Center
Xq20B0
RISK PRIORITY EVALUATION OF POWER TRANSFORMER PARTS BASED ON HYBRID FMEA FRAMEWORK UNDER HESITANT FUZZY ENVIRONMENT
The power transformer is one of the most critical facilities in the power system, and its running status directly impacts the power system's security. It is essential to research the risk priority evaluation of the power transformer parts. Failure mode and effects analysis (FMEA) is a methodology for analyzing the potential failure modes (FMs) within a system in various industrial devices. This study puts forward a hybrid FMEA framework integrating novel hesitant fuzzy aggregation tools and CRITIC (Criteria Importance Through Inter-criteria Correlation) method. In this framework, the hesitant fuzzy sets (HFSs) are used to depict the uncertainty in risk evaluation. Then, an improved HFWA (hesitant fuzzy weighted averaging) operator is adopted to fuse risk evaluation for FMEA experts. This aggregation manner can consider different lengths of HFSs and the support degrees among the FMEA experts. Next, the novel HFWGA (hesitant fuzzy weighted geometric averaging) operator with CRITIC weights is developed to determine the risk priority of each FM. This method can satisfy the multiplicative characteristic of the RPN (risk priority number) method of the conventional FMEA model and reflect the correlations between risk indicators. Finally, a real example of the risk priority evaluation of power transformer parts is given to show the applicability and feasibility of the proposed hybrid FMEA framework. Comparison and sensitivity studies are also offered to verify the effectiveness of the improved risk assessment approach
Fuzzy Techniques for Decision Making 2018
Zadeh's fuzzy set theory incorporates the impreciseness of data and evaluations, by imputting the degrees by which each object belongs to a set. Its success fostered theories that codify the subjectivity, uncertainty, imprecision, or roughness of the evaluations. Their rationale is to produce new flexible methodologies in order to model a variety of concrete decision problems more realistically. This Special Issue garners contributions addressing novel tools, techniques and methodologies for decision making (inclusive of both individual and group, single- or multi-criteria decision making) in the context of these theories. It contains 38 research articles that contribute to a variety of setups that combine fuzziness, hesitancy, roughness, covering sets, and linguistic approaches. Their ranges vary from fundamental or technical to applied approaches
Understanding location decisions of energy multinational enterprises within the European smart cities’ context: An integrated AHP and extended fuzzy linguistic TOPSIS method
Becoming a smart city is one of the top priorities in the urban agenda of many European cities. Among the various strategies in the transition path, local governments seek to bring innovation to their cities by encouraging multinational enterprises to deploy their green energy services and products in their municipalities. Knowing how to attract these enterprises implies that political leaders understand the multi-criteria decision problem that the energy sector enterprises face when deciding whether to expand to one city or another. To this end, the purpose of this study is to design a new manageable and controllable framework oriented to European cities’ public managers, based on the assessment of criteria and sub-criteria governing the strategic location decision made by these enterprises. A decision support framework is developed based on the AHP technique combined with an extended version of the hesitant fuzzy linguistic TOPSIS method. The main results indicate the higher relative importance of government policies, such as degree of transparency or bureaucracy level, as compared to market conditions or economic aspects of the city’s host country. These results can be great assets to current European leaders, they show the feasibility of the method and open up the possibility to replicate the proposed framework to other sectors or geographical areas.The authors acknowledge the support from the European Union “Horizon 2020 Research and Innovation Programme” under the grant agreements No 731297. Also, this research has been partially supported by the INVITE Research Project (TIN2016-80049-C2-1-R and TIN2016-80049-C2-2-R (AEI/FEDER, UE)), funded by the Spanish Ministry of Science and Information Technology.Peer ReviewedPostprint (published version
Consistency and Consensus Driven for Hesitant Fuzzy Linguistic Decision Making with Pairwise Comparisons
Hesitant fuzzy linguistic preference relation (HFLPR) is of interest because
it provides an efficient way for opinion expression under uncertainty. For
enhancing the theory of decision making with HFLPR, the paper introduces an
algorithm for group decision making with HFLPRs based on the acceptable
consistency and consensus measurements, which involves (1) defining a hesitant
fuzzy linguistic geometric consistency index (HFLGCI) and proposing a procedure
for consistency checking and inconsistency improving for HFLPR; (2) measuring
the group consensus based on the similarity between the original individual
HFLPRs and the overall perfect HFLPR, then establishing a procedure for
consensus ensuring including the determination of decision-makers weights. The
convergence and monotonicity of the proposed two procedures have been proved.
Some experiments are furtherly performed to investigate the critical values of
the defined HFLGCI, and comparative analyses are conducted to show the
effectiveness of the proposed algorithm. A case concerning the performance
evaluation of venture capital guiding funds is given to illustrate the
availability of the proposed algorithm. As an application of our work, an
online decision-making portal is finally provided for decision-makers to
utilize the proposed algorithms to solve decision-making problems.Comment: Pulished by Expert Systems with Applications (ISSN: 0957-4174
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