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In this paper, a systematic decision-making approach based on QFD is put forward aiming to configure the PSS design requirements (DRs). To address the uncertainty and hesitancy in QFD modeling, a hesitant fuzzy linguistic term sets (HFLTSs) is applied to elicit the experts\u2019 linguistic preferences in evaluating the importance of CRs and the relationships between CRs and DRs. To dealing with the group decision-making problems concerning the HFLTSs, the min-upper operator and the max-lower operator assemble the experts\u2019 evaluation results into a linguistic interval, and then the numerical results can be obtained by using the 2-tuple linguistic representation model and the interval preference degree computation. A non-linear 0-1 programming model is proposed to select the target DRs\u2019 specifications for maximizing customer satisfaction under cost constraint. In order to objectively determine the satisfaction degree of each optional specification of DR, the information axiom is introduced to construct the objective function via information content computation. To deal with the qualitative DRs, HFLTSs and information axiom are combined and hesitant information axiom (HIA) is proposed. Finally, a DRs optimization model is established using HIA and the imprecision method. 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