Group decision making with a fuzzy linguistic majority
Fuzzy Sets and Systems
Fuzzy sets, decision making and expert systems
Fuzzy sets, decision making and expert systems
On ordered weighted averaging aggregation operators in multicriteria decisionmaking
IEEE Transactions on Systems, Man and Cybernetics
Group decision making and consensus under fuzzy preferences and fuzzy majority
Fuzzy Sets and Systems - Special issue dedicated to Professor Claude Ponsard
Handling multicriteria fuzzy decision-making problems based on vague set theory
Fuzzy Sets and Systems
Entropy on intuitionistic fuzzy sets and on interval-valued fuzzy sets
Fuzzy Sets and Systems
Vague sets are intuitionistic fuzzy sets
Fuzzy Sets and Systems
Multicriteria fuzzy decision-making problems based on vague set theory
Fuzzy Sets and Systems
Distances between intuitionistic fuzzy sets
Fuzzy Sets and Systems
Evaluation of alternatives for product customization using fuzzy logic
Information Sciences—Informatics and Computer Science: An International Journal - Special issue: Informatics and computer science intelligent systems applications
Product Development Decisions: A Review of the Literature
Management Science
A two phase multi-attribute decision-making approach for new product introduction
Information Sciences: an International Journal
Prioritization and operations NPD mix in a network with strategic partners under uncertainty
Expert Systems with Applications: An International Journal
Improved method of multicriteria fuzzy decision-making based on vague sets
Computer-Aided Design
Uncertainty measures for interval type-2 fuzzy sets
Information Sciences: an International Journal
A method for group decision making with multi-granularity linguistic assessment information
Information Sciences: an International Journal
A combined fuzzy AHP-goal programming approach to assembly-line selection
Journal of Intelligent & Fuzzy Systems: Applications in Engineering and Technology
A note on information entropy measures for vague sets and its applications
Information Sciences: an International Journal
Fair Consistency Evaluation in Fuzzy Preference Relations and in AHP
KES '07 Knowledge-Based Intelligent Information and Engineering Systems and the XVII Italian Workshop on Neural Networks on Proceedings of the 11th International Conference
A hybrid approach to concept selection through fuzzy analytic network process
Computers and Industrial Engineering
Expert Systems with Applications: An International Journal
An novel approach to supplier selection based on vague sets group decision
Expert Systems with Applications: An International Journal
International Journal of Computer Integrated Manufacturing
Expert Systems with Applications: An International Journal
Toward a generalized theory of uncertainty (GTU)--an outline
Information Sciences: an International Journal
A linguistic modeling of consensus in group decision making basedon OWA operators
IEEE Transactions on Systems, Man, and Cybernetics, Part A: Systems and Humans
Induced generalized intuitionistic fuzzy OWA operator for multi-attribute group decision making
Expert Systems with Applications: An International Journal
Review: A state-of the-art survey of TOPSIS applications
Expert Systems with Applications: An International Journal
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Design concept evaluation which is in the end of conceptual design is one of the most critical decision points in product development. It relates to the final success of product development, because a poor design concept can rarely be compensated at the later stages. Design concept evaluation is a complicated multi-criteria decision-making problem under uncertain environments. Vague set theory is superior to fuzzy set theory in dealing with uncertain and imprecise judgments of decision makers (DMs) due to its ability of supporting opposing evidences. In this paper, a new integrated design concept evaluation approach based on vague sets is presented. Linguistic variables are transformed into vague numbers by vague set theory. Modified weighted least squares model (WSLM) based on vague sets is proposed to aggregate all individual judgments in group decision-making. Vague cross-entropy integrated with the technique for order preference by similarity to ideal solution (TOPSIS) framework is proposed to rank the order of alternatives according to the synthetic vague decision matrix. Numerical example of design concept evaluation problem of a horizontal directional drilling (HDD) machine indicates that the proposed integrated approach is systematic and effective to solve design concept evaluation problem regardless of complexity of product.