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To further promote offshore wind power energy planning and provide decision support, this paper proposes a hybrid picture fuzzy (PF) combined compromise solution (CoCoSo) technique for prioritization of OWFSs. To begin with, a fresh PF similarity measure is proffered to estimate the importance of experts. Next, the novel operational rules for PF numbers based upon the generalized Dombi norms are defined, and four novel generalized Dombi operators are propounded. Afterward, the PF preference selection index (PSI) method and PF stepwise weights assessment ratio analysis (SWARA) model are propounded to identify the objective and subjective weight of criteria, separately. In addition, the enhanced CoCoSo method is proffered via the similarity measure and new operators for ranking OWFSs with PF information. Lastly, the applicability and feasibility of the propounded PF-PSI-SWARA-CoCoSo method are adopted to ascertain the optimal OWFS. The comparison and sensibility investigations are also carried out to validate the robustness and superiority of our methodology. Results manifest that the developed methodology can offer powerful decision support for departments and managers to evaluate and choose the satisfying OWFSs.<\/jats:p>","DOI":"10.3390\/e25071081","type":"journal-article","created":{"date-parts":[[2023,7,19]],"date-time":"2023-07-19T00:47:38Z","timestamp":1689727658000},"page":"1081","update-policy":"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.3390\/mdpi_crossmark_policy","source":"Crossref","is-referenced-by-count":18,"title":["Decision Support System for Prioritization of Offshore Wind Farm Site by Utilizing Picture Fuzzy Combined Compromise Solution Group Decision Method"],"prefix":"10.3390","volume":"25","author":[{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0001-7576-5276","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Yuan","family":"Rong","sequence":"first","affiliation":[{"name":"School of Management, Shanghai University, Shanghai 200444, China"}],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]},{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0002-8570-7181","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Liying","family":"Yu","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"School of Management, Shanghai University, Shanghai 200444, China"}],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]}],"member":"1968","published-online":{"date-parts":[[2023,7,18]]},"reference":[{"key":"ref_1","first-page":"1261","article-title":"Hybrid q-Rung Orthopair Fuzzy Sets Based CoCoSo Model for Floating Offshore Wind Farm Site Selection in Norway","volume":"8","author":"Deveci","year":"2022","journal-title":"CSEE J. 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