“…It is a relatively simple decision‐making method that only requires the DMs to compare two objects in each time. With the increasing complexity of decision‐making problems, several extended types of PRs are proposed (Meng & Tan, ; Meng, Tan, & Chen, ; Saaty & Vargas, ; Meng & Chen, ; van Laarhoven and Pedrycz, ; Meng, Tang, An, & Chen, ; Xu & Xia, ; Szmidt & Kacprzyk, ; Zhang & Guo, ). On the other hand, decision making with PRs has been applied in many fields, such as industry meteorological service (Gong, Li, Forrest, & Zhao, ), supply chain management (Meng, Tan, & Chen, ; Wang & Li, ), the fire system of a tank unit (Meng, Tan, & Chen, ; Xu, ), new product development project screening (Wang and Chen, ), and selection of the catering firm (Wang et al, ).…”