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Then, a novel simplified neutrosophic cloud (SNC) concept is presented, and its operations and distance are defined. Next, a series of simplified neutrosophic cloud aggregation operators are investigated, including the simplified neutrosophic clouds Maclaurin symmetric mean (SNCMSM) operator, weighted SNCMSM operator, and generalized weighted SNCMSM operator. Subsequently, a multi-criteria decision-making (MCDM) model is constructed based on the proposed aggregation operators. Finally, a hotel selection problem is presented to verify the effectiveness and validity of our developed approach.<\/jats:p>","DOI":"10.3390\/sym10060197","type":"journal-article","created":{"date-parts":[[2018,6,4]],"date-time":"2018-06-04T08:52:03Z","timestamp":1528102323000},"page":"197","update-policy":"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.3390\/mdpi_crossmark_policy","source":"Crossref","is-referenced-by-count":6,"title":["Multi-Criteria Decision-Making Method Based on Simplified Neutrosophic Linguistic Information with Cloud Model"],"prefix":"10.3390","volume":"10","author":[{"given":"Jian-Qiang","family":"Wang","sequence":"first","affiliation":[{"name":"School of Business, Central South University, Changsha 410083, China"}]},{"given":"Chu-Quan","family":"Tian","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"School of Business, Central South University, Changsha 410083, China"}]},{"given":"Xu","family":"Zhang","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"School of Business, Central South University, Changsha 410083, China"}]},{"given":"Hong-Yu","family":"Zhang","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"School of Business, Central South University, Changsha 410083, China"}]},{"given":"Tie-Li","family":"Wang","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Management School, University of South China, Hengyang 421001, China"}]}],"member":"1968","published-online":{"date-parts":[[2018,6,1]]},"reference":[{"key":"ref_1","unstructured":"Smarandache, F. 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