Special issue “Intuitionistic fuzzy theory and its application in economy, technology and management”

First of all, we would like to thank all the authors for their provided high quality papers to this special issue and help in showing the usefulness of “Intuitionistic fuzzy theory and its application in economy, technology and management”. Then, we would like to thank all the reviewers who provided the very helpful comments that improved these papers and guaranteed the quality of this special issue. Further, we would also like to thank the Professor Zaiwu Gong from Nanjing University of Information Science and Technology, who provided some helps for this introduction to the special issue. Finally, we would like to thank Professor Edmundas Kazimieras Zavadskas, Editor in Chief of Technological and Economic Development of Economy, for proposing to publish this special issue. In addition, thank the support from the National Natural Science Foundation of China (Nos. 71471172 and 71271124) and the Special Funds of Taishan Scholars Project of Shandong Province.

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