Journal
INFORMATION SCIENCES
Volume 586, Issue -, Pages 450-467Publisher
ELSEVIER SCIENCE INC
DOI: 10.1016/j.ins.2021.12.002
Keywords
Hesitant fuzzy preference relation (HFPR); Additive consistency test; Inconsistency modification; Priority weights
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- National Natural Science Foundation of China (NSFC) [71871085]
- Spanish State Research Agency [PID2019-103880RB-I00/AEI/10.13039/501100011033]
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This paper introduces two new definitions of additive consistency for hesitant fuzzy preference relations (HFPRs) and develops corresponding models to verify consistency. It also proposes a method to modify inconsistent HFPRs and designs an integrated algorithm to achieve consistency test, inconsistency modification, and weights derivation. The feasibility and effectiveness of the proposed methods are demonstrated through numerical examples and comparative analysis.
Consistency has a crucial influence on the rationality of preference information and even the final decision result. This paper presents two new definitions of additive consistency for hesitant fuzzy preference relations (HFPRs): completely additive consistency (CAC) and weakly additive consistency (WAC). To verify the CAC or WAC of HFPRs, some linear programming models and 0-1 mixed programming models are developed. The methods consider all the information given by the decision maker without changing the length of hesitant fuzzy elements (HFEs). Accordingly, a method of modifying an inconsistent HFPR into an additively consistent HFPR is proposed. The deviation between the original complementary matrix and the modified one is minimal. Then, several linear programming models are developed to obtain priority weights from an HFPR. From these, an integrated algorithm is designed to illustrate the process of consistency test, inconsistency modification and weights derivation for HFPRs. The proposed methods are also extended to deal with WAC and CAC of incomplete HFPRs. Finally, three numerical examples and comparative analysis are presented to illustrate the feasibility and effectiveness of the proposed method.(c) 2021 Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.
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