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<journal-id journal-id-type="publisher-id">INFORMATICA</journal-id>
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<issn pub-type="epub">0868-4952</issn><issn pub-type="ppub">0868-4952</issn>
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<article-id pub-id-type="publisher-id">INFO1066</article-id><article-id pub-id-type="doi">10.15388/Informatica.2015.59</article-id>
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<article-title>Induced Uncertain Pure Linguistic Hybrid Averaging Aggregation Operator and Its Application to Group Decision Making</article-title>
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<name><surname>Li</surname><given-names>Meirong</given-names></name><email xlink:href="mailto:lmr30@sina.com">lmr30@sina.com</email><xref ref-type="aff" rid="j_INFORMATICA_aff_000"/>
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<name><surname>Peng</surname><given-names>Bo</given-names></name><email xlink:href="mailto:pb_1020@163.com">pb_1020@163.com</email><xref ref-type="aff" rid="j_INFORMATICA_aff_001"/><xref ref-type="aff" rid="j_INFORMATICA_aff_002"/><xref ref-type="corresp" rid="cor1">*</xref>
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<name><surname>Zeng</surname><given-names>Shouzhen</given-names></name><email xlink:href="mailto:zszzxl@163.com">zszzxl@163.com</email><xref ref-type="aff" rid="j_INFORMATICA_aff_003"/>
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<aff id="j_INFORMATICA_aff_000">School of Mathematics and Statistics, Hefei Normal University, Hefei, 230061, China</aff>
<aff id="j_INFORMATICA_aff_001">School of Management, Fudan University, Shanghai 200433, China</aff>
<aff id="j_INFORMATICA_aff_002">Institute of Mathematics, Zhejiang Wanli University, Ningbo, 315100, China</aff>
<aff id="j_INFORMATICA_aff_003">School of Business, Ningbo University, Ningbo, 315211, China</aff>
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<corresp id="cor1"><label>*</label>Corresponding author.</corresp>
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<pub-date pub-type="epub"><day>01</day><month>01</month><year>2015</year></pub-date><volume>26</volume><issue>3</issue><fpage>473</fpage><lpage>492</lpage><history><date date-type="received"><day>01</day><month>09</month> <year>2013</year></date><date date-type="accepted"><day>01</day><month>04</month> <year>2014</year></date></history>
<permissions><copyright-statement>Vilnius University</copyright-statement><copyright-year>2015</copyright-year></permissions>
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<p>In this paper, we propose a new aggregation operator under uncertain pure linguistic environment called the induced uncertain pure linguistic hybrid averaging aggregation (IUPLHAA) operator. Some of the main advantages and properties of the new operator are studied. Moreover, in the situations where the given arguments about all the attribute weights, the attribute values and the expert weights are expressed in the form of linguistic labels variables, we develop an approach based on the IUPLHAA operator for multiple attribute group decision making with uncertain pure linguistic environment. Finally, an illustrative example is given to verify the developed approach and to demonstrate its feasibility and practicality.</p>
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<label>Keywords</label>
<kwd>pure linguistic</kwd>
<kwd>IUPLHAA operator</kwd>
<kwd>hybrid average</kwd>
<kwd>group decision making</kwd>
<kwd>aggregation</kwd>
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