“…As a generalized form of FS, the intuitionistic fuzzy set (IFS) developed by Atanassov [2] has a membership degree (MD), a non-membership degree (NMD), and a hesitancy degree (HD), which is free of the limitations of FS. Recently, studies on the DM methods based on the IFS have attracted substantial attention in various areas, such as supplier selection [3], "one belt, one road" investment selection [4], brand management [5], mine emergency DM [6], hospital performance evaluation [7], etc. Lately, a large number of contributions have focused on DM techniques based on IFSs, which are from three domains:…”