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标题：Wasserstein distance-based probabilistic linguistic TODIM method with application to the evaluation of sustainable rural tourism potential
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作者：Shitao Zhang ; Zhangjiao Wu ; Zhenzhen Ma 等
期刊名称：Economic Research
印刷版ISSN：1331-677X
出版年度：2022
卷号：35
期号：1
页码：409-437
DOI：10.1080/1331677X.2021.1894198
语种：English
出版社：Juraj Dobrila University of Pula, Department of Economics and Tourism 'Dr. Mijo Mirkovic'
摘要：The evaluation of sustainable rural tourism potential is a key work in sustainable rural tourism development. Due to the complexity of the rural tourism development situation and the limited cognition of people, most of the assessment problems for sustainable rural tourism potential are highly uncertain, which brings challenges to the characterisation and measurement of evaluation information. Besides, decision-makers (DMs) usually do not exhibit complete rationality in the practical evaluation process. To tackle such problems, this paper proposes a new behaviour multi-attribute group decision-making (MAGDM) method with probabilistic linguistic terms sets (PLTSs) by integrating Wasserstein distance measure into TODIM (an acronym in Portuguese of interactive and multicriteria decision making) method. Firstly, a new Wasserstein-based distance measure with PLTSs is defined, and some properties of the proposed distance are developed. Secondly, based on the correlation coefficient among attributes and standard deviation of each attribute, an attribute weight determination method (called PL-CRITIC method) is proposed. Subsequently, a Wasserstein distance-based probabilistic linguistic TODIM method is developed. Finally, the proposed method is applied to the evaluation of sustainable rural tourism potential, along with sensitivity and comparative analyses, as a means of illustrating the effectiveness and advantages of the new method.
关键词：Probabilistic linguistic terms set ;Wasserstein distance ;CRITIC method ;multi-attribute group decision-making ;psychological behaviour ;sustainable rural tourism evaluation