Hesitant fuzzy sets (HFSs) play a dominant role in the decision making process. Different tools are developed to attract the decision makers (DMs) in making the effective decision, the hesitant fuzzy preference relation (HFPR) is one of the important implementation of them. Preference of an alternative over another alternative is a useful way to express the opinion of decision maker. In this paper, a hesitant fuzzy ranking (HFR) technique is established, constructed the hesitant fuzzy ranking from the HFPR in the group decision making situations. Secondly, a correlation between the alternatives is developed by using Spearman ranked correlation coefficient formula, which helps the DMs to identify the better alternative. The novelty of the proposed strategy is that it evades the need to compute the cooperative preference relations and approvals are generated for the individuals in their original domains.
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