Computing with words in decision making: foundations, trends and prospects

Francisco Herrera1, Sergio Alonso2, Francisco Chiclana3, Xinyue Liu1
1Department of Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence, University of Granada, Granada, Spain
2Software Engineering Department, University of Granada, Granada, Spain
3Centre for Computational Intelligence, De Montfort University, Leicester, UK

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