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Representational Models and Computational Foundations of Some Types of Uncertain Linguistic Expressions

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Theory and Approaches of Group Decision Making with Uncertain Linguistic Expressions

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Based on the literature review in Chap. 1, we focus on some types of ULEs and introduce the corresponding models in this chapter. These models are based on the virtual linguistic model. Thus, we introduce a theoretical discussion on this model because it triggered off some debates due to the lack of syntactical and semantic rules.

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  1. School of Information Engineering, Nanjing Audit University, Nanjing, Jiangsu, China

    Hai Wang

  2. Business School, Sichuan University, Chengdu, Sichuan, China

    Zeshui Xu

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Wang, H., Xu, Z. (2019). Representational Models and Computational Foundations of Some Types of Uncertain Linguistic Expressions. In: Theory and Approaches of Group Decision Making with Uncertain Linguistic Expressions. Uncertainty and Operations Research. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-13-3735-2_2

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