Direct approach processes in group decision making using linguistic OWA operators
Fuzzy Sets and Systems
A fusion approach for managing multi-granularity linguistic term sets in decision making
Fuzzy Sets and Systems
Linguistic decision analysis: steps for solving decision problems under linguistic information
Fuzzy Sets and Systems - Special issue on soft decision analysis
Information Sciences—Informatics and Computer Science: An International Journal
Relative and absolute order-of-magnitude models unified
Annals of Mathematics and Artificial Intelligence
Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology
Compromise ratio method for fuzzy multi-attribute group decision making
Applied Soft Computing
International Journal of Intelligent Systems
A method for group decision making with multi-granularity linguistic assessment information
Information Sciences: an International Journal
Ranking Features by means of a Qualitative Optimisation Process
Proceedings of the 2007 conference on Artificial Intelligence Research and Development
A multi-granular linguistic model for management decision-making in performance appraisal
Soft Computing - A Fusion of Foundations, Methodologies and Applications
Ranking alternatives on the basis of generic constraints and examples: a possibilistic approach
IJCAI'07 Proceedings of the 20th international joint conference on Artifical intelligence
IEEE Transactions on Fuzzy Systems
Decider: A fuzzy multi-criteria group decision support system
Knowledge-Based Systems
Measuring consensus in group decisions by means of qualitative reasoning
International Journal of Approximate Reasoning
International Journal of Intelligent Systems
A web based consensus support system for group decision making problems and incomplete preferences
Information Sciences: an International Journal
Information Sciences: an International Journal
A hierarchical model of a linguistic variable
Information Sciences: an International Journal
Information Sciences: an International Journal
IEEE Transactions on Systems, Man, and Cybernetics, Part B: Cybernetics
Aggregation operators for linguistic weighted information
IEEE Transactions on Systems, Man, and Cybernetics, Part A: Systems and Humans
A Fuzzy Linguistic Methodology to Deal With Unbalanced Linguistic Term Sets
IEEE Transactions on Fuzzy Systems
Hesitant Fuzzy Linguistic Term Sets for Decision Making
IEEE Transactions on Fuzzy Systems
Information Sciences: an International Journal
Using L-fuzzy sets to introduce information theory into qualitative reasoning
Fuzzy Sets and Systems
An ordinal approach to computing with words and the preference-aversion model
Information Sciences: an International Journal
Allowing agents to be imprecise: A proposal using multiple linguistic terms
Information Sciences: an International Journal
A linguistic multi-criteria decision making approach based on logical reasoning
Information Sciences: an International Journal
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This paper presents a new approach based upon qualitative reasoning techniques for representing and synthesising the information given by a group of evaluators. A mathematical formulation is developed that contributes to decision-making analysis in the context of multi-attribute and group decision-making. This method, is applied in choice and ranking problems and can work at different precision levels. To represent non-trivial domain knowledge, the patterns or alternatives to be ranked are characterised by a set of features, which are evaluated by each member of the group through linguistic labels corresponding to ordinal values. Different levels of precision are considered to draw the distinctions required by evaluators' reasoning processes. The method used for ranking alternatives is based on comparing distances against an optimal reference point. A theorem on the consistency of the proposed method is presented and proved. Three real-life applications are presented to outline areas of management where the proposed method has been implemented and achieved interesting results.