Publications

Past 10 years:

• The multi-fuzzy N-soft set and its applications to decision-making, with F. Fatimah. Forthcoming in Neural Computing and Applications.
  Impact factor: 4.664 (Clarivate Analytics JCR, 2019).

• Hesitant fuzzy N-soft ELECTRE-II model: A new framework for decision-making, with M. Akram, A. Adeel and M. Al-Kenani. Forthcoming in Neural Computing and Applications. Full-text view-only version in https://rdcu.be/caZpL
  Impact factor: 4.664 (Clarivate Analytics JCR, 2019).

• Risk evaluation in failure modes and effects analysis: Hybrid TOPSIS and ELECTRE I solutions with Pythagorean fuzzy information, with M. Akram and A. Luqman. Forthcoming in Neural Computing and Applications.
  Impact factor: 4.664 (Clarivate Analytics JCR, 2019).

• Group decision making framework using complex Pythagorean fuzzy information, with X. Ma, M. Akram, K. Zahid. Forthcoming in Neural Computing and Applications. Full-text view-only version in https://rdcu.be/b47ic
  Impact factor: 4.664 (Clarivate Analytics JCR, 2019).

• An optimization study based on Dijkstra algorithm for a network with picture trapezoidal fuzzy numbers, with M. Akram and A. Habib. Forthcoming in Neural Computing and Applications.
  Impact factor: 4.664 (Clarivate Analytics JCR, 2019).

• Hybrid multi-attribute decision-making model based on (m,N)−soft rough sets, with M. Akram and A. Adeel. Forthcoming in Journal of Intelligent and Fuzzy Systems.
  Impact factor: 1.637 (Clarivate Analytics JCR, 2019).

• Analysis of social networks, communication networks and shortest path problems in the environment of interval valued q-rung orthopair fuzzy information, with N. Jan, T. Mahmood, L. Zedam, K. Ullah and B. Davvaz. Forthcoming in International Journal of Fuzzy Systems.
  Impact factor:  3.085 (Clarivate Analytics JCR, 2019).

• Digraph and matrix approach for risk evaluations under Pythagorean fuzzy information, with A. Luqman and M. Akram. Expert Systems with Applications 170 (2021), 114518.
  Impact factor: 5.452 (Clarivate Analytics JCR, 2019).

• Parameter reductions in N-soft sets and their applications in decision-making, with M. Akram, G. Ali and F. Fatimah. Expert Systems 38 (2021), e12601.
  Impact factor: 1.505 (Clarivate Analytics JCR, 2019).

• An N-soft set approach to rough sets, with F. Feng and R. R. Yager. IEEE Transactions on Fuzzy Systems 28(11) (2020), 2996-3007.
  Impact factor: 8.759 (Clarivate Analytics JCR, 2019).

• Novel classes of coverings  based multigranulation  fuzzy  rough sets and corresponding applications to multiple attribute group decision-making, with X. Ma, J. Zhan, and B. Sun. Artificial Intelligence Review 53 (2020), 6197–6256.
  Impact factor: 5.095 (Clarivate Analytics JCR, 2019).

• Simple majorities with voice but no vote. Group Decision and Negotiation 29 (2020), 803-822. Free full-text view-only version in https://rdcu.be/b2tML
  Impact factor: 2.01 (Clarivate Analytics JCR, 2019).

• An MADM approach to covering-based variable precision fuzzy rough sets: an application to medical diagnosis, with H. Jiang, J. Zhan and B. Sun. International Journal of Machine Learning and Cybernetics 11 (2020), 2181–2207.
  Impact factor: 3.844 (Clarivate Analytics JCR, 2019).

• Minkowski weighted score functions of intuitionistic fuzzy values, with F. Feng, Y. Zheng, and Q. Wang. Mathematics 8 (2020), 1143.
  Impact factor: 1.747 (Clarivate Analytics JCR, 2020).

• Attributes reductions of bipolar fuzzy relation decision systems, with G. Ali and M. Akram. Neural Computing and Applications 32 (2020), 10051-10071. Full-text view-only version in https://rdcu.be/b5htg
  Impact factor: 4.664 (Clarivate Analytics JCR, 2019).

• Independent collective identity functions as voting rules, with A. Laruelle. Theory and Decision 89 (2020), 107-119.
  Impact factor: 0.680 (Clarivate Analytics JCR, 2019).

• Maximal association analysis using logical formulas over soft sets, with F. Feng, Q. Wang, R. R. Yager, and L. Zhang. Expert Systems With Applications 159 (2020), 113557.
  Impact factor: 4.292 (Clarivate Analytics JCR, 2019).

• Multi-granular soft rough covering sets, with J. Zhan. Soft Computing 24 (2020), 9391-9402. Full-text view-only version in https://rdcu.be/b4en3.
  Impact factor: 2.784 (Clarivate Analytics JCR, 2019).

• Intertemporal hesitant fuzzy soft sets: Application to group decision making, with Y. Liu, R. M. Rodríguez, K. Qin and L. Martínez. International Journal of Fuzzy Systems 22 (2020), 619–635.
  Impact factor: 3.085 (Clarivate Analytics JCR, 2019).

• An m-polar fuzzy PROMETHEE approach for AHP-assisted group decision-making, with M. Akram and Shumaiza. Mathematical and Computational Applications 25(2) (2020), 26.

• Soft open bases and a novel construction of soft topologies from bases for topologies. Mathematics 8(5) (2020), 672.
  Impact factor: 1.105 (Clarivate Analytics JCR, 2019).

• The soft sets and fuzzy sets based neural networks and application, with L. Xiong, Z. Liu and K. Qin. IEEE Access 8 (2020), 41615-41625.
  Impact factor: 4.098 (Clarivate Analytics JCR, 2019).

• Multi-granulation picture hesitant fuzzy rough sets, with B. Mathew and S. J. John. Symmetry 12(3) (2020), Article 362.
  Impact factor: 2.143 (Clarivate Analytics JCR, 2019).

• Fuzzy soft matrices on fuzzy soft multiset and its applications in optimization problems, with S. C. Warrier and T. J. Mathew. Journal of Intelligent and Fuzzy Systems 38 (2020), 2311-2322.
  Impact factor: 1.637 (Clarivate Analytics JCR, 2019).

• Aggregation of infinite chains of intuitionistic fuzzy sets and their application to choices with temporal intuitionistic fuzzy information, with A. Z. Khameneh and A. Kilicman. Information Sciences 514 (2020), 106-117.
  Impact factor: 5.524 (Clarivate Analytics JCR, 2019).

• Liberalism and dictatorship in the problem of fuzzy classification, with S. Díaz and S. Montes. International Journal of Approximate Reasoning. 110 (2019), 82-95.
  Impact factor: 1.982 (Clarivate Analytics JCR, 2019).

• Probabilistic soft sets and dual probabilistic soft sets in decision making, with F. Fatimah, D. Rosadi, and RB. F. Hakim. Neural Computing and Applications 31 (2019), 397–407. Free full-text view-only version in https://rdcu.be/MCj8
  Impact factor: 4.664 (Clarivate Analytics JCR, 2019).

• Multi-Attribute decision-making based on m-polar fuzzy Hamacher aggregation operators, with N. Waseem and M. Akram. Symmetry 11(12) (2019), 1498.
  Impact factor: 2.143 (Clarivate Analytics JCR, 2019).

• A study on hypergraph representations of complex fuzzy information, with  A. Luqman, M. Akram, and A. N. Al-Kenani. Symmetry 11(11) (2019), 1381.
  Impact factor: 2.143 (Clarivate Analytics JCR, 2019).

• A novel type of soft rough covering and its application to multicriteria group decision making, with J. Zhan. Artificial Intelligence Review 52(4) (2019), 2381–2410. Free full-text view-only version in http://rdcu.be/FAC1.
  Impact factor: 5.095 (Clarivate Analytics JCR, 2019).

• Group decision-making based on the VIKOR method with trapezoidal bipolar fuzzy information, with  Shumaiza, M. Akram, and A. N. Al-Kenani. Symmetry 11(10) (2019), 1313.
  Impact factor: 2.143 (Clarivate Analytics JCR, 2019).

• New decision-making hybrid model: Intuitionistic fuzzy N-soft rough sets, with M. Akram and G. Ali. Soft Computing 23(20) (2019), 9853–9868.
  Impact factor: 2.784 (Clarivate Analytics JCR, 2019).

• A survey of parameter reduction of soft sets and corresponding algorithms, with J. Zhan. Artificial Intelligence Review 52(3) (2019), 1839–1872. Free full-text view-only version in http://rdcu.be/yvk9
  Impact factor: 5.095 (Clarivate Analytics JCR, 2019).

• Hesitant linguistic expression soft sets: Application to group decision making, with Y. Liu, R. M. Rodríguez, K. Qin and L. Martínez. Computers & Industrial Engineering 136 (2019), 575-590. Free access until October 2, 2019.
  Impact factor:  3.518 (Clarivate Analytics, 2019).

• Parameter reductions of bipolar fuzzy soft sets with their decision-making algorithms, with G. Ali, M. Akram and A. N. A. Koam. Symmetry 11(8) (2019), 949.
  Impact factor: 2.143 (Clarivate Analytics JCR, 2019).

• Hesitant fuzzy N-soft sets: A new model with applications in decision-making, with M. Akram and A. Adeel. Journal of Intelligent and Fuzzy Systems 36 (2019) 6113–6127.
  Impact factor: 1.637 (Clarivate Analytics JCR, 2019).

• Analysis of survival for lung cancer resections cases with fuzzy and soft set theory in surgical decision making, with G. Varela, B. Santos-Buitrago, G. Santos-García,  and M. F. Jiménez. PlosOne 14(6) (2019): e0218283.
  Impact factor:  2.776 (Clarivate Analytics JCR, 2019).

• Novel classes of fuzzy soft β-coverings-based fuzzy rough sets with applications to multi-criteria fuzzy group decision making, with L. Zhang and J. Zhan. Soft Computing 23 (2019), 5327-5351.
  Impact factor: 2.784 (Clarivate Analytics JCR, 2019).

• Dual extended hesitant fuzzy sets, with G. Santos-García, X. Peng and J. Zhan. Symmetry 11(5) (2019), 714.
  Impact factor: 2.143 (Clarivate Analytics JCR, 2019).

•  Multi-criteria group decision-making under m−polar hesitant fuzzy TOPSIS approach, with M. Akram and A. Adeel. Symmetry 11(6) (2019), 795.
  Impact factor: 2.143 (Clarivate Analytics JCR, 2019).

• The relationship between soft sets and fuzzy sets and its application, with Z. Liu, K. Qin and Z. Pei. Journal of Intelligent & Fuzzy Systems 36 (2019), 3751-3764.
  Impact factor: 1.637 (Clarivate Analytics JCR, 2019).

• Soft set theory for decision making in computational biology under incomplete information, with B. Santos-Buitrago, A. Riesco, G. Santos-García, C. Talcott and K. Sun. IEEE Access 7(1) (2019), 18183-18193.
  Impact factor: 4.098 (Clarivate Analytics JCR, 2019).

• Yet another characterization of the majority rule. Economics Letters 177 (2019), 52-55. Free download till March 27, 2019 in https://authors.elsevier.com/a/1YWO8bZedmXJv
  Impact factor: 0.876 (Clarivate Analytics JCR, 2019).

• The indirect-utility criterion for ranking opportunity sets over time, with M. D. García Sanz. Symmetry 11(2) (2019), 241.
  Impact factor: 2.143 (Clarivate Analytics JCR, 2019).

• Necessary and possible hesitant fuzzy sets: a novel model for group decision making, with A. Giarlotta. Information Fusion 46 (2019), 63-76.
  Impact factor: 10.716 (Clarivate Analytics JCR, 2019).

• Covering based multigranulation (I,T)-fuzzy rough set models and applications in multi-attribute group decision-making, with J. Zhan, B Sun. Information Sciences 476 (2019), 290-318.
  Impact factor: 5.524 (Clarivate Analytics JCR, 2019).

• Covering-based general multigranulation intuitionistic fuzzy rough sets and corresponding applications to multi-attribute group decision-making, with L. Zhang, J. Zhan and Z. Xu. Information Sciences 494 (2019), 114-140.
  Impact factor: 5.524 (Clarivate Analytics JCR, 2019).

• Fuzzy β-covering based (I,T)-fuzzy rough set models and applications to multi-attribute decision-making, with K. Zhang, J. Zhan, and W. Wu. Computers & Industrial Engineering 128 (2019),  605-621.
  Impact factor:  3.518 (Clarivate Analytics JCR, 2019).

• Group Decision-Making Methods Based on Hesitant N-Soft Sets, with M. Akram and A. Adeel. Expert Systems With Applications 115 (2019), 95-105.
  Impact factor: 4.292 (Clarivate Analytics JCR, 2019).

• Fuzzy politics I: the genesis of parties, with A. E. Biondo and A. Giarlotta. Fuzzy Sets and Systems 349 (2018), 71-98.
  Impact factor: 2.907 (Clarivate Analytics JCR, 2019).

• Decomposition theorems and extension principles for hesitant fuzzy sets, with V. Torra. Information Fusion 41 (2018), 48-56.
  Impact factor: 10.716 (Clarivate Analytics JCR, 2019).

• Fuzzy N-soft sets: a novel model with applications, with M. Akram and A. Adeel. Journal of Intelligent and Fuzzy Systems 35 (2018), 4757-4771.
  Impact factor: 1.637 (Clarivate Analytics JCR, 2019).

• Best concept selection in design process: An application of generalized intuitionistic fuzzy soft sets, with K. Hayat, M. I. Ali, B.-Y. Cao and K. U.-H. Tariq. Journal of Intelligent and Fuzzy Systems 35(5) (2018), 5707-5720.
  Impact factor: 1.637 (Clarivate Analytics JCR, 2019).

• Intertemporal choice of fuzzy soft sets, with María J. Muñoz Torrecillas.  Symmetry 10(9) (2018), 371.
  Impact factor: 2.143 (Clarivate Analytics JCR, 2019).

• Collective identity functions with status quo, with A. Laruelle. Mathematical Social Sciences 93 (2018), 159-166.
  Impact factor: 0.540 (Clarivate Analytics JCR, 2019).

• A multimodal adaptive approach on soft set based diagnostic risk prediction system, with Terry Jacob Mathew and Elizabeth Sherly. Journal of Intelligent and Fuzzy Systems 34 (2018), 1609-1618.
  Impact factor: 1.637 (Clarivate Analytics JCR, 2019).

• N-soft sets and their decision making algorithms, with F. Fatimah, D. Rosadi and RB. F. Hakim. Soft Computing 22 (2018), 3829-3842. Free full-text view-only version in http://rdcu.be/v6yf
  Impact factor: 2.784 (Clarivate Analytics JCR, 2019).

• Centroid transformations of intuitionistic fuzzy values based on aggregation operators, with X. Liu, H. S. Kim and F. Feng. Mathematics 6(11) (2018), 215.
  Impact factor: 1.105 (Clarivate Analytics JCR, 2019).

• Consistency properties for fuzzy choice functions: an analysis with the Łukasiewicz t-norm, with S. Díaz and S. Montes. Axioms 7(4) (2018), 78.

• Valuation fuzzy soft sets: a flexible fuzzy soft set based decision making procedure for the valuation of assets, with S. Cruz Rambaud and María J. Muñoz Torrecillas.  Symmetry 9(11) (2017), 253.
  Impact factor: 2.143 (Clarivate Analytics JCR, 2019).

• Separable fuzzy soft sets and decision making with positive and negative attributes, with T. J. Mathew. Applied Soft Computing 59 (2017), 586-595.
  Impact factor: 4.873 (Clarivate Analytics JCR, 2019).

• The problem of collective identity in a fuzzy environment, with R. de Andrés. Fuzzy Sets and Systems 315 (2017), 57-75.
  Impact factor: 2.718 (Clarivate Analytics JCR, 2016).

• Rational fuzzy and sequential fuzzy choice, with S. Díaz. Fuzzy Sets and Systems 315 (2017), 76-98.
  Impact factor: 2.718 (Clarivate Analytics JCR, 2016).

• Consensus measures for various informational bases. Three new proposals and two case studies from political science, with M. J. Muñoz Torrecillas. Quality & Quantity 51 (2017), 285-306. Full-text view-only version: https://rdcu.be/6p8U
  Impact factor: 1.072 (Clarivate Analytics JCR, 2019).

• A new criterion for soft set based decision  making problems under incomplete information, with G. Santos-García. International Journal of Computational Intelligence Systems 10 (2017), 394-404.
  Impact factor: 1.140 (Clarivate Analytics JCR, 2016).

• Fuzzy preorders: conditional extensions, extensions and their representations, with S. Díaz. Fuzzy Optimization & Decision Making 15 (2016), 371-396. Full-text view-only version: https://rdcu.be/6hee
  Impact factor: 1.681 (Clarivate Analytics JCR, 2016).

• A new consensus ranking approach for correlated ordinal information based on Mahalanobis distance, with T. González-Arteaga and R. de Andrés. Information Sciences 372 (2016), 546-564.
  Impact factor 4.832 (Clarivate Analytics JCR, 2016).

• A cardinal dissensus measure based on the Mahalanobis distance, with T. González-Arteaga and R. de Andrés Calle. European Journal of Operational Research 251 (2016), 575-585.
  Impact factor: 3.297 (Clarivate Analytics JCR, 2016).

• Richter-Peleg multi-utility representations of preorders, with G. Bosi and M. Zuanon. Theory and Decision 80 (2016), 443-450.
  Impact factor: 0.606 (Clarivate Analytics JCR, 2016).
  

• A segment-based approach to the analysis of project evaluation problems by hesitant fuzzy sets, with R. de Andrés. International Journal of Computational Intelligence Systems 29 (2016), 325-339.
  Impact factor: 1.140 (Clarivate Analytics JCR, 2016).
  

• A novel algorithm for fuzzy soft set based decision making from multiobserver input parameter data set. Information Fusion 29 (2016), 142-148.
  Impact factor: 5.667 (Clarivate Analytics JCR, 2016).
  

• Some formal relationships among soft sets, fuzzy sets, and their extensions. International Journal of Approximate Reasoning 68 (2016), 45-53.
  Impact factor: 2.845 (Clarivate Analytics JCR, 2016).
  

• Hesitant Fuzzy Worth: an innovative ranking methodology for hesitant fuzzy subsets, with R. de Andrés and M. J. Muñoz Torrecillas. Applied Soft Computing, 38 (2016), 232–243.
  Impact factor: 3.541 (Clarivate Analytics JCR, 2016).

• Conditional extensions of fuzzy preorders, with S. Díaz. Fuzzy Sets and Systems 278 (2015), 3-19.

• Pairwise dichotomous cohesiveness measures, with R. de Andrés and J. M Cascón. Group Decision and Negotiation 24 (2015), 833-854.

• Sequential rationalization of multivalued choice, with María Dolores García Sanz. Mathematical Social Sciences 74 (2015), 29-33.

• Ordering infinite utility streams: efficiency, continuity, and no impatience, with Ram Sewak Dubey. Mathematical Social Sciences 72 (2014), 33-40.

• Dis&approval voting: a characterization, with A. Laruelle. Social Choice and Welfare 43 (2014), 1-10.

• Finite sets of data compatible with multidimensional inequality measures. Information Sciences 265 (2014), 85-90.

• The impossibility of social evaluations of infinite streams with strict inequality aversion. Economic Theory Bulletin 1(2) (2013), 123-130.

• Consensus and the act of voting, with R. de Andrés and J. M Cascón. Studies in Microeconomics 1 (2013), 1-22.

• Liberal approaches to ranking infinite utility streams: When can we avoid interference? Social Choice and Welfare 41 (2013), 381-396.

• Evaluations of infinite utility streams: Pareto-efficient and egalitarian axiomatics, with M. D. García-Sanz. Metroeconomica 64 (2013), 432-447.

• On measures of cohesiveness under dichotomous opinions: some characterizations of Approval Consensus Measures, with R. de Andrés and J. M Cascón. Information Sciences 240 (2013), 45-55.

• A unifying model to measure consensus in a society, with R. de Andrés and J. M Cascón. Mathematical and Computer Modelling 57 (2013), 1876-83.

• Inequality averse criteria for evaluating infinite utility streams: The impossibility of Weak Pareto. Journal of Economic Theory 147 (2012), 353-363.

• An axiomatic analysis of ranking sets under simple categorization, with R. Arlegi. SERIEs, Special Issue in honor of Salvador Barberà, 3 (1-2) (2012), 227-245.

• Nash equilibria without continuity of the choice rules. Acta Mathematica Scientia (Series B) 31(4) (2011), 1535-1540.

• A selection of maximal elements under non-transitive indifferences, with G. Bosi and M. Zuanon. Journal of Mathematical Psychology 54 (2010), 481-484.

• Goodness of fit in optimizing consumer’s model, with L. D. L. Matos and C. R. Palmero. Mathematical and Computer Modelling 52 (2010), 1088-1094.

• A complete solution of the integrability problem for homothetic demand functions, with C. Rodríguez Palmero. International Journal of Economic Theory 6 (2010), 263–271.

• Paretian evaluation of infinite utility streams: an egalitarian criterion, with M. D. García-Sanz. Economics Letters 16 (2010), 209-211.

• Conditional ordering extensions. Economic Theory 39 (3) (2009), 495-503.

• Constructive utility functions on Banach spaces, with G. B. Mehta. Journal of Mathematical Analysis and Applications 350 (2009), 590-600.

• Continuous utility functions through scales, with G. Bosi , M. J. Campión, J. C. Candeal, E. Induráin and C. Rodríguez Palmero. Theory and Decision 64(4) (2008), 479-494.

• Ranking sets additively in decisional contexts: an axiomatic characterization, with R. Arlegi. Theory and Decision 64(2-3) (2008), 147-171.

• Mixed choice structures, with applications to binary and non-binary maximization. Journal of Mathematical Economics 44 (2008), 242-250.