Hesitant fuzzy set lexicographical ordering and its application to multi-attribute decision making

There exist several types of hesitant fuzzy set (HFS) ranking techniques that have been widely used for handling multi-attribute decision making problems with HFS information. The main goal of this paper is to present firstly a brief study of some existing HFS ranking techniques by emphasizing their counterintuitive examples, and then a novel HFS ranking technique is introduced based on the idea of lexicographical ordering. (C) 2015 Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.