Abstract The arrival of Big Data era has brought large, complex, and growing data generated
from numerous sources. Due to the power in felicitous decision making based on diverse …

The transportation sector is also of great importance in terms of carbon emission problem.
Significant amount of carbon dioxide is emitted into the atmosphere due to the use of fossil …

Blockchain has been an emerging technology, which comprises lots of fields such as
distributed systems and Internet of Things (IoT). As is well known, blockchain is the …

The move towards an era of big data structured problems has led to the development of
state-of-the-art solutions, mainly in decision sciences. Large Scale Decision-Making (LSDM) …

In wireless sensor networks (WSNs), it is critical to design an advisable transmission power
allocation strategy for balancing the latency and energy efficiency, and prolonging the …

Abstract Type-2 fuzzy sets (T2FSs) have the advantage of representing higher-order
uncertainty, they have shown excellent performance in system modeling. However …

The use of dual probabilistic linguistic term sets (DPLTSs) to represent the use's preferences
in decision making can reflect the decision maker's cognitive certainty and uncertainty …

Appraising the alternative among a set versus conflicting factors is taken into account as an
essential issue in real-world decision problems. In this paper, a new multicriteria group …

In today's world, with increased competition, the service quality of Chinese commercial
banks is recognized as a major factor that is responsible for enhancing competitiveness …

Abstract Preference aggregation in Group Decision Making (GDM) is a substantial problem
that has received a lot of research attention. Decision problems involving fuzzy preference …