Linguistic multi-criteria decision-making model with output variable expressive richness

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Highlights：

• Proposal to improve the expressive richness of any decision-making model results.

• It provides decision makers with more precise and intuitive outcomes.

• The model is validated by applying it to several real case studies in ICT sector.

• The results obtained are shown and compared with the ones got with other models.

• The main advantages of applying this model are presented.

摘要

•Proposal to improve the expressive richness of any decision-making model results.•It provides decision makers with more precise and intuitive outcomes.•The model is validated by applying it to several real case studies in ICT sector.•The results obtained are shown and compared with the ones got with other models.•The main advantages of applying this model are presented.

论文关键词：Multi-criteria decision-making,Linguistic labels,Variable expressive richness,2-tuple representation,Linguistic TOPSIS model

论文评审过程：Received 31 December 2016, Revised 6 April 2017, Accepted 24 April 2017, Available online 26 April 2017, Version of Record 8 May 2017.

论文官网地址：https://doi.org/10.1016/j.eswa.2017.04.049