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<!DOCTYPE article PUBLIC "-//NLM//DTD JATS (Z39.96) Journal Publishing DTD v1.0 20120330//EN" "JATS-journalpublishing1.dtd"><article xmlns:mml="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink" article-type="research-article"><front><journal-meta><journal-id journal-id-type="publisher-id">INFORMATICA</journal-id><journal-title-group><journal-title>Informatica</journal-title></journal-title-group><issn pub-type="epub">0868-4952</issn><issn pub-type="ppub">0868-4952</issn><publisher><publisher-name>VU</publisher-name></publisher></journal-meta><article-meta><article-id pub-id-type="publisher-id">inf23201</article-id><article-id pub-id-type="doi">10.15388/Informatica.2012.355</article-id><article-categories><subj-group subj-group-type="heading"><subject>Research article</subject></subj-group></article-categories><title-group><article-title>MULTIMOORA-FG: A Multi-Objective Decision Making Method for Linguistic Reasoning with an Application to Personnel Selection</article-title></title-group><contrib-group><contrib contrib-type="Author"><name><surname>Baležentis</surname><given-names>Alvydas</given-names></name><email xlink:href="mailto:a.balezentis@gmail.com">a.balezentis@gmail.com</email><xref ref-type="aff" rid="j_INFORMATICA_aff_000"/></contrib><contrib contrib-type="Author"><name><surname>Baležentis</surname><given-names>Tomas</given-names></name><email xlink:href="mailto:tomas@laei.lt">tomas@laei.lt</email><xref ref-type="aff" rid="j_INFORMATICA_aff_001"/></contrib><contrib contrib-type="Author"><name><surname>Brauers</surname><given-names>Willem K.M.</given-names></name><email xlink:href="mailto:willem.brauers@ua.ac.be">willem.brauers@ua.ac.be</email><xref ref-type="aff" rid="j_INFORMATICA_aff_002"/></contrib><aff id="j_INFORMATICA_aff_000">Mykolas Romeris University, Valakupių 5, LT-10101 Vilnius, Lithuania</aff><aff id="j_INFORMATICA_aff_001">Lithuanian Institute of Agrarian Economics, V. Kudirkos 18, LT-03105 Vilnius, Lithuania</aff><aff id="j_INFORMATICA_aff_002">University of Antwerp, Birontlaan, 97, B2600 Berchem-Antwerpen, Belgium</aff></contrib-group><pub-date pub-type="epub"><day>01</day><month>01</month><year>2012</year></pub-date><volume>23</volume><issue>2</issue><fpage>173</fpage><lpage>190</lpage><history><date date-type="received"><day>01</day><month>05</month><year>2011</year></date><date date-type="accepted"><day>01</day><month>09</month><year>2011</year></date></history><abstract><p>This paper aims to extend fuzzy MULTIMOORA with linguistic reasoning and group decision-making (MULTIMOORA-FG). The new method consists of the three parts, namely the fuzzy Ratio System, the fuzzy Utopian Reference Point, and the fuzzy Full Multiplicative Form offering a robust comparison of alternatives against multiple objectives. In addition, MULTIMOORA-FG is designed to deal with triangular fuzzy numbers which, in turn, can resemble linguistic variables. MULTIMOORA-FG is a proper instrument for linguistic reasoning under fuzzy environment. In our study an application of personnel selection illustrates the group decision-making procedure according to MULTIMOORA-FG. Given the uncertainties peculiar of personnel selection, the application of multi-objective decision making (MODM) is required in this area. Fuzzy MULTIMOORA enables to aggregate subjective assessments of the decision-makers and thus offer an opportunity to perform a more robust personnel selection. The committee decided to consider eight qualitative characteristics expressed in linguistic variables. A numerical example exhibited possibilities for improvement of human resources management or any other business decision-making by applying MULTIMOORA-FG.</p></abstract><kwd-group><label>Keywords</label><kwd>personnel selection</kwd><kwd>personnel management</kwd><kwd>employment decisions</kwd><kwd>human resources management</kwd><kwd>multi-objective optimization</kwd><kwd>MULTIMOORA</kwd><kwd>MULTIMOORA-FG</kwd><kwd>fuzzy number</kwd><kwd>linguistic reasoning</kwd></kwd-group></article-meta></front></article>