The increasing complexity of real-world problems drives the experts to consider complex
linguistic expressions instead of single linguistic terms to represent their linguistic opinions …

Performance analysis is an important way for hospitals to achieve higher efficiency and
effectiveness in providing services to their customers. The performance of the healthcare …

The power average (PA) operator can overcome some effects of awkward data given by
predispose decision makers, and Heronian mean (HM) operator can consider the …

Environmental protection has globally driven the encouragement of design and
development of low carbon supply chain management systems at global level. It is known …

The study is concerned with the representation and aggregation of complex uncertainty
information. First, the concept of hesitant Fermatean 2‐tuple linguistic sets (HF2TLSs) is …

Hesitant 2-tuple linguistic variable realizes a graded information approach to characterize
the uncertainty of human cognition. This study is concerned with the development of new …

As a safety and reliability analysis technique, failure mode and effects analysis (FMEA) has
been used extensively in several industries for the identification and elimination of known …

The equipment failure is an important factor that may cause accidents in the geothermal
power plant. Failure mode and effect analysis (FMEA) has been widely adopted to prevent …

Aggregation function is an important component in an information aggregation or
information fusion system. Interrelationships usually exist between the input arguments (eg …

Constructing scientific evaluation system and evaluation methods to make timely
quantitative evaluation for regional industrial operation quality is of great practical …