Abstract The notable characteristic of large-scale linguistic decision-making problems is that there are so many decision makers who provide assessments by using fuzzy representation models. In real-world applications, terms mean different things for people, and based on models may be simultaneous in the same problems. To this end, a novel method voting model proposed paper to deal with multi-l...

Mass customization (MC) relates to the ability to provide individually designed products and services to every customer through high process flexibility and integration. For responding to the mass customization trend it is necessary to develop an agility-based manufacturing system to catch on the traits involved in MC. An MC manufacturing agility evaluation approach based on concepts of TOPSIS ...

• An improved Fine-Kinney-model is proposed for OHS risk assessment. The interval 2-Tuple linguistic variable adopted to transform information. WPA operator based on consensus degree constructed. extended ORESTE method with prospect theory prioritize risk. assessment one of the most significant procedures identifying, preventing, and controlling Occupational Health Safety (OHS) risks. One many ...

Nowadays, knowledge has become a determinant capital for enterprise to retain and improve competitive advantage. In other words, knowledge and intellectual capital are crucial intangible resources and also need to be emphasized and manage appropriately. Because knowledge is abstract, intangible, and difficult to measure, it becomes an important issue to evaluate intellectual capital for busines...

Most group decision making (GDM) problems based on linguistic approaches use symmetrically and uniformly distributed linguistic term sets to express experts’ opinions. However, there exist problems whose assessments need to be represented by means of unbalanced linguistic term sets, i.e. using term sets that are not uniformly and symmetrically distributed. The aim of this paper is to present a ...

In those problems that deal with multiple sources of linguistic information we can find problems defined in contexts where the linguistic assessments are assessed in linguistic term sets with different granularity of uncertainty and/or semantics (multigranular linguistic contexts). Different approaches have been developed to manage this type of contexts, that unify the multigranular linguistic ...