“…The OWA operator (Yager, 1988) presents a useful tool to infuse information that reflects the characteristic attitudes of decision makers. Due to its flexibility, the OWA operator has been the focus of many theoretical studies and is used in empirical applications of MADM problems (Merig o, Gil-Lafuente, Yu, & Llopis-Albert, 2018;Tan, Jia, & Chen, 2017;Wei, Gao, & Wei, 2018;Wei & Wang, 2017;Yager, Kacprzyk, & Beliakov, 2011;Yu, 2016;Zhou, Merig o, Chen, & Liu, 2016). Specifically, the OWA operator aggregates the ordered arguments in the following manner:…”