“…However, the preference of DMs in the aforementioned research is represented by numerical utilities, which are difficult to obtain in real-world situations, and the sanctions by opponents are not considered. Within the framework of GMCR, cross-border water pollution disputes are modeled and analyzed in the literature [15,16,28], where only relative preferences are required, and the sanctioning moves by opponents are considered. Furthermore, the GMCR methodology provides various kinds of solution concepts for portraying the complex decision-making behaviors, such as GMR, SMR, SEQ, and so on, except for Nash.…”