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Huchang Liao

Huchang Liao

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2025
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Engineering and Technology
China
2026

D-Index & Metrics

Rising Stars

D-Index
78
Citations
20226
World Ranking
35
National Ranking
13

Business and Management

D-Index
81
Citations
21930
World Ranking
158
National Ranking
12

Engineering and Technology

D-Index
82
Citations
22838
World Ranking
468
National Ranking
75

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2026 - Research.com Engineering and Technology in China Leader Award
  • 2025 - Research.com Engineering and Technology in China Leader Award
  • 2025 - Research.com Rising Stars Award

Overview

Huchang Liao is affiliated with Sichuan University in China and has a research portfolio primarily centered in the fields of Decision Sciences and Computer Science. Their work spans multiple subfields including Management Science and Operations Research, Artificial Intelligence, Computational Theory and Mathematics, Strategy and Management, and Control and Systems Engineering.

The scientist's research topics cover a range of areas with a strong focus on Multi-Criteria Decision Making. Other significant topics include Rough Sets and Fuzzy Logic, Sustainable Supply Chain Management, Cognitive Science and Mapping, Optimization and Mathematical Programming, Bayesian Modeling and Causal Inference, and Digital Marketing and Social Media.

Frequent publication venues for Huchang Liao include:

  • Information Sciences
  • Applied Soft Computing
  • Journal of the Operational Research Society
  • Technological and Economic Development of Economy
  • International Journal of Fuzzy Systems

Key co-authors who have collaborated extensively with Liao are:

  • Xingli Wu
  • Ming Tang
  • Edmundas Kazimieras Zavadskas
  • Zeshui Xu
  • Lisheng Jiang

Some recent papers by Huchang Liao include:

  • "A comprehensive overview of smart wearables: The state of the art literature, recent advances, and future challenges," 2020, published in Engineering Applications of Artificial Intelligence
  • "Probabilistic double hierarchy linguistic term set and its use in designing an improved VIKOR method: The application in smart healthcare," 2020, Journal of the Operational Research Society
  • "Consensus Model Handling Minority Opinions and Noncooperative Behaviors in Large-Scale Group Decision-Making Under Double Hierarchy Linguistic Preference Relations," 2020, IEEE Transactions on Cybernetics
  • "A multi-stage method to predict carbon dioxide emissions using dimensionality reduction, clustering, and machine learning techniques," 2020, Journal of Cleaner Production
  • "A multi-criteria decision making method based on DNMA and CRITIC with linguistic D numbers for blockchain platform evaluation," 2021, Engineering Applications of Artificial Intelligence

Best Publications

  • A Bibliometric Analysis and Visualization of Medical Big Data Research

    Huchang Liao;Ming Tang;Li Luo;Chunyang Li

  • Distance and similarity measures for hesitant fuzzy linguistic term sets and their application in multi-criteria decision making

    Huchang Liao;Huchang Liao;Zeshui Xu;Xiao-Jun Zeng

  • Intuitionistic Fuzzy Analytic Hierarchy Process

    Zeshui Xu;Huchang Liao

  • Qualitative decision making with correlation coefficients of hesitant fuzzy linguistic term sets

    Huchang Liao;Zeshui Xu;Xiao-Jun Zeng;José M. Merigó

  • Hesitant Fuzzy Linguistic VIKOR Method and Its Application in Qualitative Multiple Criteria Decision Making

    Huchang Liao;Zeshui Xu;Xiao-Jun Zeng

  • The state-of-the-art survey on integrations and applications of the best worst method in decision making: Why, what, what for and what's next?

    Xiaomei Mi;Ming Tang;Huchang Liao;Wenjing Shen

  • Probabilistic Linguistic MULTIMOORA: A Multicriteria Decision Making Method Based on the Probabilistic Linguistic Expectation Function and the Improved Borda Rule

    Xingli Wu;Huchang Liao;Zeshui Xu;Arian Hafezalkotob

  • Double hierarchy hesitant fuzzy linguistic term set and MULTIMOORA method

    Xunjie Gou;Huchang Liao;Zeshui Xu;Francisco Herrera

  • A VIKOR-based method for hesitant fuzzy multi-criteria decision making

    Huchang Liao;Zeshui Xu

  • Consistency-based risk assessment with probabilistic linguistic preference relation

    Yixin Zhang;Zeshui Xu;Hai Wang;Huchang Liao

  • A consensus-based probabilistic linguistic gained and lost dominance score method

    Xingli Wu;Huchang Liao

  • An approach to quality function deployment based on probabilistic linguistic term sets and ORESTE method for multi-expert multi-criteria decision making

    Xingli Wu;Huchang Liao;Huchang Liao

  • A review of greenhouse gas emission profiles, dynamics, and climate change mitigation efforts across the key climate change players

    Xiaosong Zheng;Dalia Streimikiene;Tomas Balezentis;Abbas Mardani

  • Approaches to manage hesitant fuzzy linguistic information based on the cosine distance and similarity measures for HFLTSs and their application in qualitative decision making

    Huchang Liao;Zeshui Xu

  • MULTIPLICATIVE CONSISTENCY OF HESITANT FUZZY PREFERENCE RELATION AND ITS APPLICATION IN GROUP DECISION MAKING

    Huchang Liao;Zeshui Xu;Meimei Xia

  • A novel VIKOR approach based on entropy and divergence measures of Pythagorean fuzzy sets to evaluate renewable energy technologies in India

    Pratibha Rani;Arunodaya Raj Mishra;Kamal Raj Pardasani;Abbas Mardani

  • Hesitant Fuzzy Linguistic Term Set and Its Application in Decision Making: A State-of-the-Art Survey

    Huchang Liao;Huchang Liao;Zeshui Xu;Enrique Herrera-Viedma;Enrique Herrera-Viedma;Francisco Herrera;Francisco Herrera

  • From conventional group decision making to large-scale group decision making: What are the challenges and how to meet them in big data era? A state-of-the-art survey

    Ming Tang;Huchang Liao

  • An overview of MULTIMOORA for multi-criteria decision-making: Theory, developments, applications, and challenges

    Arian Hafezalkotob;Ashkan Hafezalkotob;Huchang Liao;Huchang Liao;Huchang Liao;Francisco Herrera;Francisco Herrera

  • Hesitant fuzzy linguistic entropy and cross-entropy measures and alternative queuing method for multiple criteria decision making

    Xunjie Gou;Zeshui Xu;Huchang Liao

  • Preference Relations Based on Intuitionistic Multiplicative Information

    Meimei Xia;Zeshui Xu;Huchang Liao

  • Priorities of Intuitionistic Fuzzy Preference Relation Based on Multiplicative Consistency

    Huchang Liao;Zeshui Xu

  • An intuitionistic fuzzy multiplicative best-worst method for multi-criteria group decision making

    Qiong Mou;Zeshui Xu;Huchang Liao

  • A linear programming method for multiple criteria decision making with probabilistic linguistic information

    Huchang Liao;Huchang Liao;Lisheng Jiang;Zeshui Xu;Jiuping Xu

Frequent Co-Authors

Zeshui Xu
Zeshui Xu Sichuan University
Francisco Herrera
Francisco Herrera University of Granada
Xunjie Gou
Xunjie Gou Sichuan University
Xiao-Jun Zeng
Xiao-Jun Zeng University of Manchester
Enrique Herrera-Viedma
Enrique Herrera-Viedma University of Granada
Edmundas Kazimieras Zavadskas
Edmundas Kazimieras Zavadskas Vilnius Gediminas Technical University
Abbas Mardani
Abbas Mardani Qazvin University of Medical Sciences
José M. Merigó
José M. Merigó University of Technology Sydney
Jiuping Xu
Jiuping Xu Sichuan University
Dalia Streimikiene
Dalia Streimikiene Lithuanian Energy Institute

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