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 …

Preference reliability analysis for preference relations reflected by the ordinal consistency
and the cardinal consistency was intensively studied. The ordinal consistency is a minimum …

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 …

Experts have shifted from precise numerical representations to more complex linguistic
representations in response to the growing complexity of occupational health and safety …

Some practical decision making problems need complex preferences. This study deals with
a multi-criteria group decision making problem with preference approval structures (PASs) …

This paper deals with the construction of interpretable fuzzy sets by following a socio-
technical-based approach, where two key actors, the (decision) analyst, and the decision …

In linguistic multiple attribute decision making (MADM), flexible linguistic expressions can
provide a general way to express complex preference data linguistically, which presents the …

As a novel linguistic representation tool, flexible linguistic expression (FLE) has substantial
flexibility in expressing ambiguous and uncertain information from experts. However, FLEs …

Many enterprises today grapple with supply disruptions in a tumultuous post-COVID-19
environment caused by black swan events, resulting in lost sales and hindering growth …

This paper develops a personalized individual semantics (PISs) model for computing with
linguistic intuitionistic fuzzy information and applies to evaluate different brands of mobile …