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Since the concept of fuzzy set was introduced, different extensions and generalizations have been proposed to manage the uncertainty in different problems. This chapter is focused in a recent extension so-called hesitant fuzzy set. Many researchers have paid attention on it and have proposed different extensions both in quantitative and qualitative contexts. Several concepts, basic operations and its extensions are revised in this chapter.
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This work is partially funded by the Spanish research projects TIN2011-27076-C03-03, TIN2015-66524-P, the Spanish Ministry of Economy and Finance Postdoctoral Training (FPDI-2013-18193) and ERDF.
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Rodríguez, R.M., Martínez, L., Herrera, F., Torra, V. (2016). A Review of Hesitant Fuzzy Sets: Quantitative and Qualitative Extensions. In: Kahraman, C., Kaymak, U., Yazici, A. (eds) Fuzzy Logic in Its 50th Year. Studies in Fuzziness and Soft Computing, vol 341. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-31093-0_5
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