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In the novel fuzzy evaluation method, the interval values can be aggregated by the Dempster-Shafer Theory and be transformed into the certain value by linguistic discount factor. The consistency intensity is proposed to determine the value of the linguistic discount factor, which can reflect the mainstream opinions in the assessment. <\/jats:p>\n            <\/jats:sec>\n            <jats:sec>\n               <jats:title content-type=\"abstract-heading\">Findings<\/jats:title>\n               <jats:p> \u2013 The proposed method can solve the problem on the analysis and synthesis of the fuzzy evaluation information. An instance of trust evaluation of cloud storage service is illustrated to verify that the proposed method can express the opinions of all evaluators more adequately. <\/jats:p>\n            <\/jats:sec>\n            <jats:sec>\n               <jats:title content-type=\"abstract-heading\">Practical implications<\/jats:title>\n               <jats:p> \u2013 A serial of experiments are carried out on NetLogo, and the results show that the proposed method is practical and efficient. <\/jats:p>\n            <\/jats:sec>\n            <jats:sec>\n               <jats:title content-type=\"abstract-heading\">Originality\/value<\/jats:title>\n               <jats:p> \u2013 Instead of obtaining only the qualitative results by the multi-attribute decision-making method, the fuzzy evaluation method based on consistency intensity can obtain the quantitative results from the fuzzy information according to linguistic discount factor and consistency intensity.<\/jats:p>\n            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