Abstract
Matching problems in daily life can be effectively solved by two-sided matching decision-making (TSMDM) approaches. The involved matching intermediary is to match two sides of subjects. This paper proposes a TSMDM approach based on preference ranking organization method (PROMETHEE) under the probabilistic linguistic environment. The probabilistic linguistic evaluations are firstly normalized and transformed to the benefit types. Then, the preference degrees of a subject over other subjects from the same side are obtained by using six types of preference function. Afterwards, groups of preference degrees of a subject are aggregated to the preference indexes by considering the weights of criteria. Hereafter, the preference degrees of a subject over other subjects from the same side are aggregated to the outgoing flow, while the preference degrees of other subjects from the same side over this subject are aggregated to the incoming flow. Furthermore, the net-flows, which is recognized as the satisfaction degrees are calculated by using outgoing flows to minus incoming flows. On the basis of this, the multi-objectives TSMDM model is built by considering the matching aspirations. A model with respect to the matching aspirations is built and solved by using the Lagrange function. The multi-objectives TSMDM model is further transformed to the single-objective model, the solution of which is the matching scheme. A matching problem related to the intelligent technology intermediary is solved to verify the effectiveness and the feasibility of the proposed approach.