A Novel Linguistic Z-Number QUALIFLEX Method and Its Application to Large Group Emergency Decision Making
Joint Authors
Ding, Xue-Feng
Zhu, Li-Xia
Lu, Mei-Shun
Feng, Yi-Qi
Wang, Qi
Source
Issue
Vol. 2020, Issue 2020 (31 Dec. 2020), pp.1-12, 12 p.
Publisher
Hindawi Publishing Corporation
Publication Date
2020-06-26
Country of Publication
Egypt
No. of Pages
12
Main Subjects
Abstract EN
After an unconventional emergency event occurs, a reasonable and effective emergency decision should be made within a short time period.
In the emergency decision making process, decision makers’ opinions are often uncertain and imprecise, and determining the optimal solution to respond to an emergency event is a complex group decision making problem.
In this study, a novel large group emergency decision making method, called the linguistic Z-QUALIFLEX method, is developed by extending the QUALIFLEX method using linguistic Z-numbers.
The evaluations of decision makers on the alternative solutions are first expressed as linguistic Z-numbers, and the group decision matrix is then constructed by aggregating the evaluations of all subgroups.
The QUALIFLEX method is used to rank the alternative solutions for the unconventional emergency event.
Besides, a real-life example of emergency decision making is presented, and a comparison with existing methods is performed to validate the effectiveness and practicability of the proposed method.
The results show that the proposed linguistic Z-QUALIFLEX can accurately express the evaluations of the decision makers and obtain a more reasonable ranking result of solutions for emergency decision making.
American Psychological Association (APA)
Ding, Xue-Feng& Zhu, Li-Xia& Lu, Mei-Shun& Wang, Qi& Feng, Yi-Qi. 2020. A Novel Linguistic Z-Number QUALIFLEX Method and Its Application to Large Group Emergency Decision Making. Scientific Programming،Vol. 2020, no. 2020, pp.1-12.
https://search.emarefa.net/detail/BIM-1208980
Modern Language Association (MLA)
Ding, Xue-Feng…[et al.]. A Novel Linguistic Z-Number QUALIFLEX Method and Its Application to Large Group Emergency Decision Making. Scientific Programming No. 2020 (2020), pp.1-12.
https://search.emarefa.net/detail/BIM-1208980
American Medical Association (AMA)
Ding, Xue-Feng& Zhu, Li-Xia& Lu, Mei-Shun& Wang, Qi& Feng, Yi-Qi. A Novel Linguistic Z-Number QUALIFLEX Method and Its Application to Large Group Emergency Decision Making. Scientific Programming. 2020. Vol. 2020, no. 2020, pp.1-12.
https://search.emarefa.net/detail/BIM-1208980
Data Type
Journal Articles
Language
English
Notes
Includes bibliographical references
Record ID
BIM-1208980