The 2-dimension linguistic variables (2-DLVs) add a subjective evaluation on the reliability of the evaluation results provided by decision makers, so 2-DLVs are very useful tools for describing uncertain or fuzzy information. ...

Linguistic decision-making tools are very useful in determining the solution to real-life decision problems. In order to represent the complex fuzzy qualitative information more accurately, this paper introduces a novel ...

Work quality measures are fundamental to study population welfare. Labour activity occupies most of the workers’ day, so quantifying people’s welfare by means of work quality is central. Decent work indicators have the aim ...

Evaluation, attitudes and linguistic beliefs led to subjective judgments of the speaker about his own language and that of his interlocutor. Such judgments can influence linguistic variation or the course of linguistic ...

Una hipótesis es una suposición, conjetura o proposición que establece la existencia de una relación entre dos o más variables expresadas como hechos, fenómenos, factores o entidades, y que debe ser sometida a prueba ...

Background: Understanding the pattern of non-linguistic abilities in aphasia has been a controversial question. We hypothesized that only some aphasia patients, particularly patients with fluent forms of aphasia and global ...

In this paper, we consider multiple attribute group decision making (MAGDM) problems in which the attribute values take the form of intuitionistic uncertain linguistic variables. Based on Hamacher operations, we developed ...

The starting point of this article is the question "How to retrieve fingerprints of rhythm in written texts?" We address this problem in the case of Brazilian and European Portuguese. These two dialects of Modern Portuguese ...