@revista_internacional{335,
  keywords = {average index, consistency measure, hesitant fuzzy linguistic term sets, interval index, linguistic preference relation},
  author = {Cong-Cong Li and Rosa María Rodríguez and Francisco Herrera and Luis Martínez and Yucheng Dong},
  title = {Consistency of hesitant fuzzy linguistic preference relations: An interval consistency index},
  abstract = {The study of hesitant consistency is very important in decision-making with hesitant fuzzy linguistic preference relations (HFLPRs), and generally the normalization method is used as a tool to measure the consistency degree of a HFLPR. In this paper we propose a new hesitant consistency measure, called interval consistency index, to estimate the consistency range of a HFLPR. The underlying idea of the interval consistency index consists of measuring the worst consistency index and the best consistency index of a HFLPR. Furthermore, by comparative study, a connection is shown between the interval consistency index and the normalization method, demonstrating that the normalization method should be considered as an approximate average consistency index of a HFLPR.},
  year = {2018},
  journal = {Information Sciences},
  volume = {432},
  pages = {347-361},
  publisher = {Elsevier},
  url = {https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0020025517304693},
  doi = {10.1016/j.ins.2017.12.018},
}