Granulating linguistic information in decision making under consensus and consistency

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Highlights：

• A granulation of the linguistic information to made it operational is proposed.

• The granulation is formulated as an optimization problem in which both consensus and consistency are maximized.

• Both the semantics and distribution of the linguistic information are not assumed a priori.

摘要

•A granulation of the linguistic information to made it operational is proposed.•The granulation is formulated as an optimization problem in which both consensus and consistency are maximized.•Both the semantics and distribution of the linguistic information are not assumed a priori.

论文关键词：Group decision making,Granulation,Linguistic information,Consistency,Consensus

论文评审过程：Received 30 June 2017, Revised 28 December 2017, Accepted 20 January 2018, Available online 31 January 2018, Version of Record 3 February 2018.

论文官网地址：https://doi.org/10.1016/j.eswa.2018.01.030