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Correlation Measure of Hesitant Fuzzy Linguistic Term Soft Set and Its Application in Decision Making

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Proceedings of the 4th International Conference on Frontiers in Intelligent Computing: Theory and Applications (FICTA) 2015

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Hesitant fuzzy linguistic term set (HFLTS) provides a new and more powerful technique to represent the qualitative judgments of experts. Molodtsov [13] proposed soft set theory which is used as a general mathematical tool for dealing with uncertainty. In this paper, we introduce hesitant fuzzy linguistic term soft set (HFLTSS) by combining HFLTS with soft sets. HFLTSS can be used to provide approximate description of an object using linguistic terms. This study also proposes hesitant fuzzy linguistic term soft matrix (HFLTSM) to represent HFLTSS. As an extension of correlation measures in HFLTS, we introduce correlation coefficient in the context of HFLTSS. Finally, the applicability of correlation coefficient in the framework of HFLTSS has been demonstrated using a real-life decision-making problem.

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  1. Department of Computer Application, Asansol Engineering College, Asansol, 5, India

    Debashish Malakar & Sulekha Gope

  2. Department of C.S.E., Dr. B. C. Roy Engineering College, Durgapur, 6, India

    Sujit Das

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  1. Machine Intelligence Unit, ISI, Kolkata, West Bengal, India

    Swagatam Das

  2. Computer Science and Engineering, National Institute of Technology, Durgapur, West Bengal, India

    Tandra Pal

  3. National Institute of Technology, Durgapur, West Bengal, India

    Samarjit Kar

  4. Deparment of CSE, Anil Neerukonda Ins. of Tech. & Sci., Vishakapatnam, India

    Suresh Chandra Satapathy

  5. Kalyani University, Nadia, West Bengal, India

    Jyotsna Kumar Mandal

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Malakar, D., Gope, S., Das, S. (2016). Correlation Measure of Hesitant Fuzzy Linguistic Term Soft Set and Its Application in Decision Making. In: Das, S., Pal, T., Kar, S., Satapathy, S., Mandal, J. (eds) Proceedings of the 4th International Conference on Frontiers in Intelligent Computing: Theory and Applications (FICTA) 2015. Advances in Intelligent Systems and Computing, vol 404. Springer, New Delhi. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-81-322-2695-6_35

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