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 …

Human reliability analysis (HRA) is a systematic technique to assess human systematic risk,
and has been widely used in various industries for enhancing the safety and reliability of …

The last decade witnessed tremendous developments in social media and e-democracy
technologies. A fundamental aspect in these paradigms is that the number of decision …

In the past decades, the rapid urbanisation has driven the prosperity of building industry,
which, however, has led to the consumption of enormous amounts of energy and resources …

With social media and e-democracy development, decision-making environments and
problems have become increasingly complex. Traditional group decision-making, including …

Comparative linguistic expression preference relations (CLEPRs) are an effective tool to
represent uncertain opinions of decision makers in group decision making (GDM) …

Several studies aimed at improving healthcare management have shown that the
importance of healthcare has grown in recent years. In the healthcare industry, effective …

A large-scale group decision-making (LGDM) problem is studied from the perspective of
multi-stage hesitant fuzzy linguistic term sets (MHFLTSs). Solving an LGDM problem …

Large-scale group decision making (LSGDM) involving a large number of experts has
attracted more and more scholars' attention. Many LSGDM methods assumed that experts …

Quality function deployment (QFD) is a team-based product development technique for
determining critical engineering characteristics based on customer requirements to realize …