Linguistic group decision-making issues occur very frequently in practical decision
situations. As a kind of information representation, unbalanced linguistic distribution …

Sintering is a commonly used agglomeration process to prepare iron ore fines for blast
furnace. The quality of sinter significantly impacts the blast furnace ironmaking process. In …

The COVID-19 pandemic has affected the operations of factories worldwide. However, the
impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on different factories is not the same. In other words, the …

In group decision making, flexible linguistic preference relations (FLPRs) are very useful
with the pairwise comparisons taking the form of flexible linguistic expressions (FLEs). Due …

As the proportion of natural gas in China's energy consumption increases, it has become an
important issue to assess the risk of liquefied natural gas (LNG) transportation routes. This …

Abstract Probabilistic hesitant fuzzy Set (PHFs) is the most powerful and comprehensive
idea to support more complexity than developed fuzzy set (FS) frameworks. In this paper a …

Trust relation, as defined in Social Network Analysis (SNA), is one of the recent notions
considered in decision making. This inspired our integration of trust relation in constructing a …

This paper aims to present some novel prioritized aggregation operators for aggregating
complex intuitionistic fuzzy values (CIFVs). The aggregation operators are developed by …

With the wide use of network, the outbreak of network public opinion emergencies has
changed from single to multiple. The goal of the current study is to construct the emergency …

In social network group decision making (SN-GDM) problem, subgroup weights are mostly
unknown, many approaches have been proposed to determine the subgroup weights …