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INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF SYSTEMS SCIENCE
Volume 48, Issue 2, Pages 225-235Publisher
TAYLOR & FRANCIS LTD
DOI: 10.1080/00207721.2016.1177129
Keywords
Decision analysis; multi-criteria; linguistic modelling; TOPSIS; semantics
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- National Natural Science Foundation of China [71401185, 71431008]
- MOE (Ministry of Education in China) Project of Humanities and Social Sciences [13YJC630200]
- China Postdoctoral Science Foundation [2015T80869, 2014M552135]
- Hunan Provincial Philosophy and Social Science Foundation of China [15YBA408]
- Hunan Provincial Natural Science Foundation of China [14JJ4050]
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A linguistic multi-criteria decision-making method is introduced. In this method, a maximising discrimination programming assigns the semanteme values to linguistic variables to represent their semantics. Incomplete preferences from using linguistic information are expressed by the constraints of the model. Such assignment can amplify the difference between alternatives. Thus, the discrimination of the decision model is increased, which facilitates the decision-maker to rank or order the alternatives for making a decision. We also discuss the parameter setting and its influence, and use an application example to illustrate the proposed method. Further, the results with three types of semantic structure highlight the ability of the method in handling different semantic structures.
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