“…IFS provides the possibility of measuring uncertainty and hesitation (Liu and Wang, ; Gao et al., ; Wei and Gao, ). Over the past few decades, this theory has coalesced into a stable subject and has been applied in various fields, such as decision making (Yager, ; Garg, ; Hu et al., ; Gao et al., ; Wei, ; Wei and Lu, ), medical diagnosis (De et al., ; Rajarajeswari and Uma, ; Sun et al., ; Wei and Wei, ) and pattern recognition (Meng and Chen, ; Wei, ). Compared with other fuzzy sets, IFSs can be easily applied to DRS.…”