A natural disaster is a major adverse event resulting from the earth’s natural forces. We can now take advantage of information technology (IT) devices to make migration decisions and hazard analysis. The range of IT applications is very wide, and could include robot manufacturing, remote...

This paper investigates the origins of the collinearity problems encountered in the two-step estimation method for sample selection models. The analysis reveals several critical misconceptions and deficiencies in the literature. Remedies to the collinearity problems are proposed and evaluated.

In this paper, we introduce some operational laws of linguistic variables and define some linguistic preference relations such as incomplete linguistic preference relation and improved linguistic preference relation, etc. We then utilize the extended arithmetic averaging (EAA) operator and the...

Numerical preference relations (NPRs) consisting of numerical judgments can be considered as a general form of the existing preference relations, such as multiplicative preference relations (MPRs), fuzzy preference relations (FPRs), interval MPRs (IV-MPRs) and interval FPRs (IV-FPRs). On the...

In fuzzy decision-making environments, intuitionistic preference relation is highly useful in depicting uncertainty and vagueness of preference information provided by the decision maker. In the process of decision making with intuitionistic preference relation, the most crucial issue is how to...

The analytic network process (ANP) is a methodology for multi-criteria decision making used to derive priorities of the compared elements in a network hierarchy, where the dependences and feedback within and between the elements can be considered. However, the ANP is limited to the input...