Multi-Criteria Decision-Making and Operations Research
A special issue of Mathematics (ISSN 2227-7390). This special issue belongs to the section "D2: Operations Research and Fuzzy Decision Making".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 30 April 2026
Special Issue Editors
Interests: Multicriteria decision making; Group decision making; Information fusion; Game theory; Supply chain management
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Interests: Multicriteria decision making; Soft computing; Neutrosophic theory and applications; Robotics; Artificial intelligence and control
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Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Multicriteria decision making and operations research are the important branches of management science and enginerring. Due to the complexity of objective things and ambiguity of human thinking, multicriteria decision making and operations research modeling and methods in various fuzzy environments have attracted wide attention and have been extensively employed to diverse engineering and scientific fields. Since Zadeh initiated the concept of fuzzy set, the fuzzy set theory has been widely used in various real-life decision making problems.
We are pleased to invite you to contribute original research articles and review articles, which will stimulate continuous research on multicriteria decision making and operations research modeling, methods and applications of various fuzzy theories to evaluate/solve decision making problems in engineering and scientific fields. Articles submitted to this special issue can also be concerned with various advanced fuzzy theories, modeling, and applications in decision making, operations research, management, artificial intelligence, environmental protection, big and small data mining, pattern recognition, information processing, medical diagnosis, faulty diagnosis, image processing, education, economics, finance and many other practical modeling and analysis, etc.
This Special Issue aims to gather a collection of articles on cutting-edge advances and developments in the fields of multiple criteria decision making and operations research.
In this Special Issue, original research articles and reviews are welcome. Research areas may include (but not limited to) the following:
Multicriteria decision making, operations research, group decision making, optimization, decision analsyis, aggregation functions, natural language processing, knowledge representation, extensions and generalizations of fuzzy sets, aggregation operations, fuzzy programming, and approximate reasoning, engineering, economics, education, medical and scientific applications.
I look forward to receiving your contributions.
Prof. Dr. Shuping Wan
Prof. Jun Ye
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- fuzzy sets, soft sets, hesitant sets, neutrosophic sets, etc., and their extensions/generalizations
- decision making
- multiple criteria decision making
- operations research
- group decision
- fuzzy optimization
- fuzzy mathematical programming model and method
- fuzzy clustering analysis
- fuzzy game theory
- reasoning under uncertainty
- aggregation operators
- granular computing
- fuzzy fractional integral aggregation
- linguistic variables
- artificial intelligence
- soft computing
- fuzzy set theory
- deep learning
- neutrosophic sets
- neural networks
- machine learning
- expert systems
- soft computing applications in medical sciences and bioinformatics
- applications of fuzziness in artificial intelligence, economics, education, medicine, engineering, etc.
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