This study is historical-comparative linguistic research of the languages indigenous peoples in Saireri Bay, Papua province, namely Ambai, Ansus, Menawi, and Biak languages. These are classified as non-Austronesian (SIL, 2000) hypothesized to be closely related. aims find accurate evidence reveal genetic relationship level between these four The study's data consisted Swadesh list's 200 basic w...

This paper presents a new approach to solve the multi-criteria group decision making (MCGDM) problem where criteria values take the form of 2-tuple linguistic information. Firstly, a 2-tuple hybrid ordered weighted geometric (THOWG) operator is proposed, which synthetically considers the importance of both individual and the ordered position so as to overcome the defects of existing operators. ...

In system modeling with Fuzzy Rule-Based Systems (FRBSs), we may usually find two contradictory requirements, the interpretability and the accuracy of the model obtained. As known, Linguistic Modeling (LM)—where the main requirement is the interpretability—is developed by linguistic FRBSs, while Fuzzy Modeling (FM)—where the main requirement is the accuracy—is developed, among others, by approx...

The article deals with the role of the verbs "to make" and "faire" in the expression of the notion of coercion. Firstly, a brief explanation of the concept of coercion is presented from different aspects, the phenomenon of impact which forms a part of the structure of this conception, especially, is stressed. After this, the research of the verbs "to make" and "faire” which express namely this ...

The sustainable supplier selection process requires consideration of multi-criteria evaluations. In recent years, to prevent the hesitation of different linguistic expressions by the decision makers, and to help the selection of the best one as the solution of different alternatives, researchers have been using several methods such as hesitant fuzzy linguistic term sets (HFLTS), hesitant fuzzy ...