Purpose The purpose of this paper is to propose a multi-criteria decision-making model
based on the case-based reasoning (CBR) method for interval-valued probabilistic linguistic …

Manufacturing companies usually expect strategic improvements to focus on reducing both
waste and variability in processes, whereas markets demand greater flexibility and low …

With the continuous development of the global economy, global environmental pollution,
climate degradation and global warming are becoming increasingly serious. In order to deal …

Decision-making on conditions that involve many alternatives, many criteria, and many
judgments is a difficult thing to do. The difficulty is coupled with assessors who sometimes …

Risk allocation is a key point to improve the efficiency of the public private partnership (PPP)
project. During the process of risk allocation, qualitative information cannot be avoided. A bi …

This paper presents hybrid linguistic expressions and operations for the hybrid linguistic
multiple criteria group decision making (MCGDM) issue with identical and/or different single …

As two powerful and flexible tools for decision-makers (DMs) to model the complex
cognition, the hesitant fuzzy set (HFS) and hesitant fuzzy linguistic term set (HFLTS) allow …

Currently, elements of ship procurement such as stores, lubricants, manning and various
regulatory obligations represent a considerable amount of daily running costs. Specifically …

Hesitant fuzzy linguistic term set (HFLTS) is an approach giving ability to obtain more flexible
decision-making (DM) process by integrating linguistic fuzzy modeling (LFM) with hesitative …

Consensus plays a pivotal role in large-scale group decision-making, and the social network
relationship significantly impacts the consensus reaching process (CRP). Consequently …