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Further, the feed-forward double hierarchy linguistic neural network applies to the decision making model for the selection of the best HWNs for voice, video, and data. In this novel decision making model, we first take the given data about HWNs and use the converting function to convert the given data into a double hierarchy linguistic term set. We calculate the hidden layer and output layer information by using Hamacher aggregation operations. Finally, we use the sigmoid activation function on the output layer information to decide on the best HWNs for voice, video, and data according to ranking. 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