Zhuolin Li (李卓琳)

Zhuolin Li (李卓琳)

Dalian University of Technology

Zhuolin Li received the B.S. degree in engineering management from the Taiyuan University of Technology, Taiyuan, China, in 2019, and the master's degree in management science and engineering from the Dalian University of Technology, Dalian, China, in 2022, where she is currently pursuing the Ph.D. degree, under the supervision of Prof. Zhen Zhang. She is also a visiting Ph.D. student in the University of Alberta, Canada, under the supervision of Prof. Witold Pedrycz.

Her research interest includes multi-criteria sorting, preference learning and group decision making. She authored one monograph and published 14 papers on referred journals and conference proceedings, including European Journal of Operational Research, IEEE Transactions on Systems, Man, and Cybernetics: Systems, IEEE Transactions on Computational Social Systems, Omega, Computers & Operations Research, Journal of the Operational Research Society, Annals of Operations Research, Information Fusion, Computers & Industrial Engineering, among others.

She has been a peer reviewer for some SCI-indexed international journals, such as IEEE Transactions on Systems, Man, and Cybernetics: Systems, Information Fusion, Fuzzy Systems and Sets, Artificial Intelligence Review, Group Decision and Negotiation, Operational Research, Journal of Intelligent & Fuzzy Systems, International Journal of Computational Intelligence Systems, Kybernetes, Complexity.

🔥 News

📝 Publications

Monograph

  • [01] Zhen Zhang, Wenyu Yu, Zhuolin Li. Modeling Complex Linguistic Information to Support Group Decision Making Under Uncertainty, Springer Nature, Singapore, 2024, ISBN: 978-981-97-3583-9.

Journal papers

  • [13] Zhuolin Li, Zhen Zhang*, Witold Pedrycz. An incremental preference elicitation-based approach to learning potentially non-monotonic preferences in multi-criteria sorting, European Journal of Operational Research, 2025, 323(2), pp. 553-570. (SCI, EI, 2023 IF=6.0, ABS 4)

  • [12] Zhuolin Li, Zhen Zhang*, Witold Pedrycz. Integrating machine learning models to learn potentially non-monotonic preferences for multi-criteria sorting from large-scale assignment examples, Omega, 2025, 131, 103219. (SCI, SSCI, EI, 2023 IF=6.7, ABS 3)

  • [11] Zhen Zhang, Zhuolin Li*, Wenyu Yu*. Lexicographic optimization-based approaches to learning a representative model for multi-criteria sorting with non-monotonic criteria, Computers & Operations Research, 2025, 174, 106917. (SCI, EI, 2023 IF=4.1, ABS 3)

  • [10] Zhuolin Li, Zhen Zhang*. Modeling personalized individual semantics in multicriteria decision making with incomplete linguistic preference relations: A preference disaggregation perspective, IEEE Transactions on Systems, Man, and Cybernetics: Systems, 2025, 55(1), pp. 390-403. (SCI, EI, 2023 IF=8.6, ABS 3)

  • [09] Zhuolin Li, Zhen Zhang, Wenyu Yu*. Consensus reaching for ordinal classification-based group decision making with heterogeneous preference information, Journal of the Operational Research Society, 2024, 75(2), pp. 224-245. (SCI, SSCI, EI, 2023 IF=2.7, ABS 3, ESI highly cited paper)

  • [08] Zhuolin Li, Zhen Zhang*. Threshold-based value-driven method to support consensus reaching in multi-criteria group sorting problems: A minimum adjustment perspective, IEEE Transactions on Computational Social Systems, 2024, 11(1), pp. 1230-1243. (SCI, EI, 2023 IF=4.5, ESI highly cited paper)

  • [07] Zhen Zhang*, Zhuolin Li. Consensus-based TOPSIS-Sort-B for multi-criteria sorting in the context of group decision making, Annals of Operations Research, 2023, 325(2), pp. 911-938. (SCI, 2023 IF=4.4, ABS 3, ESI highly cited paper)

  • [06] 张震, 李卓琳. 考虑个性化语义和一致性的群体决策共识模型, 管理工程学报, 2023, 37(6), pp. 157-168. (CSSCI, FMS-T1)

  • [05] Peng Li, Zhiwei Xu, Zhen Zhang*, Zhuolin Li, Cuiping Wei. Consensus reaching in multi-criteria social network group decision making: A stochastic multicriteria acceptability analysis-based method, Information Fusion, 2023, 97, 101825. (SCI, EI, 2023 IF=14.8, ESI highly cited paper)

  • [04] Zhen Zhang, Zhuolin Li. Personalized individual semantics-based consistency control and consensus reaching in linguistic group decision making, IEEE Transactions on Systems, Man, and Cybernetics: Systems, 2022, 52(9), pp. 5623-5635. (SCI, EI, 2022 IF=8.7, ABS 3, ESI highly cited paper, ESI hot paper)

  • [03] Zhuolin Li, Zhen Zhang, Wenyu Yu*. Consensus reaching with consistency control in group decision making with incomplete hesitant fuzzy linguistic preference relations, Computers & Industrial Engineering, 2022, 170, 108311. (SCI, EI, 2022 IF=7.9, ESI highly cited paper)

  • [02] Zhen Zhang*, Zhuolin Li, Yuan Gao. Consensus reaching for group decision making with multi-granular unbalanced linguistic information: A bounded confidence and minimum adjustment-based approach, Information Fusion, 2021, 74, pp. 96-110. (SCI, EI, 2021 IF=17.564, ESI highly cited paper)

  • [01] Zhen Zhang*, Yuan Gao, Zhuolin Li. Consensus reaching for social network group decision making by considering leadership and bounded confidence, Knowledge-Based Systems, 2020, 204, 106240. (SCI, EI, 2020 IF=8.038, ESI highly cited paper)

Conference papers

  • [01] Zhen Zhang, Zhuolin Li, Wenyu Yu*. Some models to improve the worst consistency level of hesitant fuzzy preference relations. In Proceedings of the14 th International FLINS Conference on Robotics and Artificial Intelligence (FLINS 2020), pp. 327–335,Cologne, Germany, 18-21 August 2020. (EI, ISTP)

🎖 Honors and Awards

  • • National Scholarships (2024, 2023, 2021).
  • • Excellent Postgraduate Student of Dalian University of Technology (2024, 2023, 2021, 2020).
  • • Excellent Master's Thesis in Liaoning Province (2022).
  • • Excellent Master's Thesis of Dalian University of Technology (2022).
  • • Outstanding Graduate of Dalian (2022).
  • • Outstanding Graduate of Dalian University of Technology (2022).
  • • “Professional Study” Scholarship of Taiyuan University of Technology (2018, 2017, 2016).
  • • National Encouragement Scholarship (2017).
  • • Three Good Students of Taiyuan University of Technology (2017).

📖 Educations

  • • 2022.09 - now, Ph.D. candidate, School of Economics and Management, Dalian University of Technology.
  • • 2023.11- now, visiting Ph.D. student, Faculty of Engineering, University of Alberta.
  • • 2019.09 - 2022.06, Master's degree, School of Economics and Management, Dalian University of Technology.
  • • 2015.09 - 2019.06, Bachelor's degree, School of Economics and Management, Taiyuan University of Technology.

💬 Academic Activities

  • [09] 2023.07, Harbin Institute of Technology “International Summer School on Big Data and Business Analytics”. (Harbin, China)
  • [08] 2023.06, International Conference on Group Decision and Negotiation 2023, delivered an oral report entitled “A multi-criteria group consensus sorting method based on minimum adjustment feedback mechanism” at the Intelligent Group Decision Making and Consensus Process session. (Tokyo, Japan)
  • [07] 2023.04, The 15th Annual Conference on Decision Science in China. (Shenzhen, China)
  • [06] 2023.02, 2022 Annual Conference of China Management Science and Engineering Society and the 20th China Management Science and Engineering Forum. (Shenyang, China)
  • [05] 2022.12, The 2nd Annual Academic Conference of the Data Science and Knowledge System Engineering Committee of the Systems Engineering Society of China, delivered an oral report entitled “Consensus-based TOPSIS-Sort-B for multi-criteria sorting in the context of group decision-making” at the Data and Network-driven Decision Analysis Session. (Online)
  • [04] 2022.07, The 3rd Academic Conference of the Intelligent Decision Making and Game Theory Branch of the Chinese Society of Optimization, Overall Planning and Economic Mathematics, and the Academic Forum on Intelligence Decision Making and Game Theory Deriven by “Carbon Peaking and Carbon Neutrality”, delivered an oral report entitled “Consensus reaching model by considering personalized individual semantics and consistency control”. (Changsha, China)
  • [03] 2022.06, International Conference on Group Decision and Negotiation 2022, delivered an oral report entitled “Consensus reaching model for group decision making by considering personalized individual semantics and consistency”. (Online)
  • [02] 2021.08, The 1st Annual Academic Conference of the Data Science and Knowledge System Engineering Committee of the Systems Engineering Society of China, delivered an oral report entitled “Majority Rule Sorting-based consensus reaching model for multi-criteria group sorting” at the Data and Network-driven Decision Analysis Session. (Online)
  • [01] 2019.11, The 14th International Conference on Intelligent Systems and Knowledge Engineering. (Dalian, China)