Multi-stage type-α constrained minimum-cost consensus for linguistic Z-number large-scale decision-making

Z Du, S Yu, L Guo, X Zhong - Engineering Applications of Artificial …, 2024 - Elsevier
As an extension of group decision-making in terms of scale and uncertainty, linguistic Z-
number large-scale decision-making (LZ-LSDM) is emerging as a prominent research topic …

Linguistic Z-number preference relation for group decision making and its application in digital transformation assessment of SMEs

J Chai, Y Su, S Lu - Expert Systems with Applications, 2023 - Elsevier
In the new phase of technological revolution and industrial transformation, the digital
transformation (DT) of small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) has become a critical …

ZSLF: A new soft likelihood function based on Z-numbers and its application in expert decision system

Y Tian, L Liu, X Mi, B Kang - IEEE Transactions on Fuzzy …, 2020 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Due to the complexity of the real world, effective consideration of the ambiguity and reliability
of information is a challenge that must be addressed by the correct decision of the expert …

Exploiting fractional accumulation and background value optimization in multivariate interval grey prediction model and its application

H Huang, Z Tao, J Liu, J Cheng, H Chen - Engineering Applications of …, 2021 - Elsevier
In the context of small sample and poor information, the data often change rapidly and
interact with multiple factors which make it a challenge to analyse and predict multivariate …

An integrated multicriteria group decision making methodology for property concealment risk assessment under Z-number environment

Z Hu, J Lin - Expert Systems with Applications, 2022 - Elsevier
The complexity and opacity of individual property concealment seriously impede the court's
judicial execution. Property concealment risk assessment can assist law enforcement …

New customer-oriented design concept evaluation by using improved Z-number-based multi-criteria decision-making method

J Qi, J Hu, H Huang, Y Peng - Advanced Engineering Informatics, 2022 - Elsevier
The customer-oriented design concept evaluation (CDCE) enables companies to select the
best design concept from the perspective of customer to win the customer-centered market …

Concept design evaluation by using Z-axiomatic design

S Aydoğan, EE Günay, D Akay, GEO Kremer - Computers in Industry, 2020 - Elsevier
Capturing the uncertainty associated with a decision maker (DM)'s judgments and
preferences is one of the most challenging parts of concept design evaluation as it depends …

A multicriteria decision making methodology based on two-dimensional uncertainty by hesitant Z-fuzzy linguistic terms with an application for blockchain risk …

A Karaşan, İ Kaya, M Erdoğan, M Çolak - Applied Soft Computing, 2021 - Elsevier
Blockchain technology (BT), which provides to record transactions among many computers
as a distributed ledger, is commonly utilized by companies to develop and manage business …

Z‐uncertain probabilistic linguistic variables and its application in emergency decision making for treatment of COVID‐19 patients

J Chai, S **an, S Lu - International Journal of Intelligent …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
Probabilistic linguistic term sets (PLTSs) have many applications in the field of group
decision making (GDM) because it includes both linguistic evaluation and probabilistic …

A ranking model of Z-mixture-numbers based on the ideal degree and its application in multi-attribute decision making

S **an, J Chai, T Li, J Huang - Information Sciences, 2021 - Elsevier
The Z-number has a great advantage in describing uncertain information. Since Zadeh
proposed Z-number, scholars have combined the Z-number with multi-attribute decision …