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PHF-TOPSIS: Probabilistic Hesitant extension of TOPSIS
PENDING_LITERATURE_SEARCH
Method assistant
Grounded explanations: it explains the method, it does not compute.
Assumptions to verify
- •Decision matrix entries are valid Probabilistic Hesitant numbers/tuples
- •Underlying crisp method's compensation assumption holds in uncertain space
- •All decision-maker(s) and experts use the same linguistic/uncertainty scale
When not to use
- •Crisp data sufficient: use base TOPSIS directly (avoid unnecessary uncertainty layer)
- •Aggregation operator (PFWA/PFOWA/etc.) not specified: output ambiguous
Commonly paired with
- •n_a + PHF-TOPSIS (common)
How to cite
PENDING_LITERATURE_SEARCH. PENDING: PHF-TOPSIS specific seminal not confirmed. Zhang et al. 2017 (doi:10.1016/j.inffus.2017.02.001) is the foundational PHFS paper, not a PHF-TOPSIS paper. L.formulation.en cites 'Zhu & Xu 2018' as PHF-TOPSIS anchor: unverified. Candidate from search: Naeem et al. 2021 'Extended TOPSIS method based on the entropy measure and probabilistic hesitant fuzzy information' (JIFS, doi:10.3233/JIFS-202700): not confirmed as the canonical seminal..