The risk evaluation of liquefied natural gas (LNG) carriers has been the focus of research
due to the special characteristics of the goods carried. Therefore, firstly, this article …

Multi-granularity probabilistic linguistic Z-number (PLZN) is an effective and flexible tool for
expressing expert opinions. For group decision-making (GDM) problems with multi …

Clustering and the feedback mechanism in a consensus reaching process (CRP) have been
regarded as two critical components when solving the large-scale group decision-making …

This article proposes a decayed trust propagation method among multiple overlapping
communities, and establishes a trust-driven consensus model for social network group …

Faced with backward and uneven economic conditions and an irrational and increasingly
inequitable social structure, healthcare disparities are widening and the healthcare …

Z-number expresses the membership degrees of an element to a set by several possibilities
and their reliability. Therefore, it has a great advantage in dealing with fuzziness and …

Social network group decision-making (SNGDM) is a new type of group decision-making
(GDM) paradigm that has emerged in recent years. The traditional consensus feedback …

Group decision making (GDM) has been widely focused on for coping with the complexity of
a practical decision making problem. This paper proposes a relative projection-driven GDM …

With the enrichment of social platforms, large-scale group decision-making (LSGDM) in
social networks has gradually taken shape. In practice, experts may show limited …

As an improved form of fuzzy sets (FSs), spherical fuzzy sets (SFSs) could provide decision
makers (DMs) with more free space to express their preference information. In this article, we …