Preface -- The balancing role of Best and Worst in Best-Worst Method -- Hierarchical evaluation of criteria and alternatives within BWM: A Mon-te Carlo approach -- A two-step Best-Worst Method (BWM) and K-Means clustering recom-mender system framework -- A linguistic 2-tuple Best-Worst Method --...

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