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Overseas talents have recently become an important resource. How to scientifically evaluate and classify overseas talents has become an important research topic, and it is necessary to seek a systematic decision aid. This paper introduces a novel methodology to evaluate and classify overseas talents in China under the intuitionistic relations environment. Firstly, we determine the weighted values of decision makers and criteria through defining geometry consistency. Secondly, we construct a non-linear Best-Worst-Method (BWM) model with intuitionistic preference relations. A highlight of this BWM model for intuitionistic relations is taking both positive and negative aspects into consideration, which is different from the original BWM. Finally, the proposed methodology is applied to an illustrative example of overseas talent evaluation, indicating the simultaneous efficiency and practicability of the method.<\/jats:p>","DOI":"10.3390\/sym8110137","type":"journal-article","created":{"date-parts":[[2016,11,23]],"date-time":"2016-11-23T11:12:14Z","timestamp":1479899534000},"page":"137","update-policy":"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.3390\/mdpi_crossmark_policy","source":"Crossref","is-referenced-by-count":23,"title":["Evaluation and Classification of Overseas Talents in China Based on the BWM for Intuitionistic Relations"],"prefix":"10.3390","volume":"8","author":[{"given":"Qing","family":"Yang","sequence":"first","affiliation":[{"name":"College of Management and Economics, Tianjin University, Tianjin 300072, China"}]},{"given":"Zaisheng","family":"Zhang","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"College of Management and Economics, Tianjin University, Tianjin 300072, China"}]},{"given":"Xinshang","family":"You","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"College of Management and Economics, Tianjin University, Tianjin 300072, China"}]},{"given":"Tong","family":"Chen","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"College of Management and Economics, Tianjin University, Tianjin 300072, China"}]}],"member":"1968","published-online":{"date-parts":[[2016,11,23]]},"reference":[{"key":"ref_1","first-page":"6","article-title":"The Chinese Dream of the Overseas Returned Talents\u2013crack the returnees entrepreneurial puzzle","volume":"11","author":"Qu","year":"2000","journal-title":"New Economy."},{"key":"ref_2","doi-asserted-by":"crossref","first-page":"958","DOI":"10.1057\/jors.1995.134","article-title":"IMOST: Interactive multiple objective system technique","volume":"46","author":"Lai","year":"1995","journal-title":"J. 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