Abstract To address the situation where multi-criteria decision making (MCDM) has problems with hesitant fuzzy preference relations (HFPRs), this paper develops a group method considering additive consistency and consensus simultaneously. First, new normalized for HFPRs is developed to evaluation information different number of elements. Second, improving unacceptable consistent HFPRs, an algor...

In this paper, the multi-person decision making problems with various different types of incomplete linguistic preference relations are studied. Some new concepts, including incomplete uncertain linguistic preference relation, incomplete triangular fuzzy linguistic preference relation, incomplete trapezoid fuzzy linguistic preference relation, expected incomplete linguistic preference relation ...

Intuitionistic preference relations constitute a flexible and simple representation format of experts’ preference on a set of alternative options, while at the same time allowing to accommodate degrees of hesitation inherent to all decision making processes. In comparison with fuzzy preference relations, the use of intuitionistic fuzzy preference relations in decision making is limited, which i...

The aim of this paper is to study the integration of multiplicative preference relation as a preference representation structure in fuzzy multipurpose decision-making problems. Assuming fuzzy multipurpose decision-making problems under di4erent preference representation structures (ordering, utilities and fuzzy preference relations) and using the fuzzy preference relations as uniform representa...

Utilizing renewable energies is one of the most important issues for economical and social significance in future human life. Choosing the best renewable energy among all other candidates is very important in this area. To address the issue, multi-criteria group decision making (MCGDM) methods with imprecise information could be employed to solve these problems. The aim of this paper is to prop...

8 This article investigates the consistency of interval fuzzy preference relations based on interval 9 arithmetic, and new definitions are introduced for additive consistent, multiplicative consistent 10 and weakly transitive interval fuzzy preference relations. Transformation functions are put 11 forward to convert normalized interval weights into consistent interval fuzzy preference relations...

Intuitionistic fuzzy probabilities are an extension of the concept of probabilities with application in several practical problem solving tasks. The former are probabilities represented through intuitionistic fuzzy numbers, to indicate the uncertainty of the membership and nonmembership degrees in the value assigned to probabilities. Moreover, a dual hesitant fuzzy set (DHFS) is an extension of...

In this paper, motivated by the ideas of dependent weighted aggregation operators, we develop some new hesitant fuzzy dependent weighted aggregation operators to aggregate the input arguments taking the form of hesitant fuzzy numbers rather than exact numbers, or intervals. In fact, we propose three hesitant fuzzy dependent weighted averaging(HFDWA) operators, and three hesitant fuzzy dependent...