The reciprocal preference relation (RPR) is a powerful tool to represent decision makers'
preferences in decision making problems. In recent years, various types of RPRs have been …

With the rapid growth of Web 2.0 technology, a new paradigm has been developed that
allows many users to participate in decision-making processes within online social …

The decision making environment has been dramatically affected by rapid developments in
society and the economy. Large-scale group decision making (LSGDM) based on social …

Incomplete preferences have become increasingly common in light of the redundancy of
information and time-related pressures. Incomplete fuzzy preference relations (IFPRs) have …

The main challenges in large scale group decision making (LSGDM) problem are how to
tackle with the great number of participants and how to achieve a common solution accepted …

In real decision making, due to the limitation of knowledge, problem complexity and time
pressure, it is natural that decision makers express their opinions with incomplete linguistic …

Globalization of business and competitiveness in manufacturing has forced companies to
improve their manufacturing facilities to respond to market requirements. Machine tool …

In group decision making (GDM), there exists a situation in which experts may not able to
provide comparative judgements regarding all pairs of alternatives, and therefore leading to …

In group decision making (GDM) with intuitionistic fuzzy preference relations (IFPRs), the
consistency and consensus are two key issues. This paper develops a novel method for …

Since their launch in the early 1990's, recommender systems (RSs) have played an
essential role in information filtering and providing personalized information to users by …