Modular technology is a mainstream industrial trend, especially in manufacturing
transformation and upgrading. Modularization is fundamental in modular technology and …

Two aspects of problems such as weight over-bounding and reliability-dependence cannot
be well solved in the evidential reasoning (ER) approach with both weight and reliability. In …

The large-scale multiattribute group decision-making (LMGDM) consisting of at least 20
experts has been widely popular in recent years. Although lots of efforts have been spent on …

Workforce diversity has impacts on the performance and productivity of construction projects.
While the attributes of workforce diversity have been researched, few existing studies …

The core of evidence theory is the combination algorithm, which can be divided into two
categories: the recursive combination algorithm and the analytical combination algorithm …

In real life, the assessment information is usually expressed by virtual linguistic terms, but
the trust degrees of different assessment values to the same reference grade are usually …

Case retrieval is the major step in case-based reasoning (CBR). The similarity measurement
between historical cases and the target case is very important in the case retrieval, and …

In large-scale group decision-making, participants with large differences in knowledge
structures and educational backgrounds are unlikely to give an accurate evaluation of each …

It is vital to predicting the hidden behavior of complex systems, which is associated with the
operation state of the system and cannot be directly observed. In recent research of hidden …

In the multi-attribute group decision-making (MAGDM) analysis, besides the weight of the
expert, reliability is another important concept bound up with experts despite it receiving little …