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Acknowledgments

We would like to thank the authors for their contributions to this issue and thank the referees for their helpful reviews to improve the submission quality. We are also grateful to Prof. Jun Ye (Department of Electrical and Information Engineering, Shaoxing University, China), Prof. Guiwu Wei (School of Business, Sichuan Normal University, China), Prof. James Liu (Department of Computing, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Hong Kong), and Dr. Jinpei Liu (School of Business, Anhui University, China) for their useful comments and suggestions on this editorial. This work is supported by China Postdoctoral Science Foundation (2015M572361), Basic Research Project of Knowledge Innovation Program in Shenzhen (JCYJ20150324140036825), and National Natural Science Foundations of China (61503252, 71371063, 61473194 and 61170040).

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He, Y., Wang, X. & Huang, J.Z. Recent advances in multiple criteria decision making techniques. Int. J. Mach. Learn. & Cyber. 13, 561–564 (2022). https://doi.org/10.1007/s13042-015-0490-y

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