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<journal-id journal-id-type="publisher">EGUsphere</journal-id>
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<publisher><publisher-name>Copernicus Publications</publisher-name>
<publisher-loc>Göttingen, Germany</publisher-loc>
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<article-id pub-id-type="doi">10.5194/egusphere-2026-2669</article-id>
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<article-title>An Incomplete Interval Analytic Hierarchy Process for Group Decision-Making in Post-Earthquake Emergency Rescue Prioritization</article-title>
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<contrib-group><contrib contrib-type="author" xlink:type="simple"><name name-style="western"><surname>Wu</surname>
<given-names>Minlian</given-names>
<ext-link>https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4660-3902</ext-link>
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<addr-line>School of Health Management, Anhui Medical University, Hefei, China</addr-line>
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<pub-date pub-type="epub">
<day>10</day>
<month>08</month>
<year>2026</year>
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<volume>2026</volume>
<fpage>1</fpage>
<lpage>42</lpage>
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<copyright-statement>Copyright: &#x000a9; 2026 Minlian Wu</copyright-statement>
<copyright-year>2026</copyright-year>
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<license-p>This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License. To view a copy of this licence, visit <ext-link ext-link-type="uri"  xlink:href="https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/">https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/</ext-link></license-p>
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<p>Post-earthquake emergency resource allocation requires rapid, scientific decision-making under information incompleteness and uncertainty, where traditional deterministic approaches are inadequate. This study proposes a group decision-making framework for post-earthquake rescue priority evaluation, which combines interval-valued preference representation and optimization-based incomplete matrix completion. It extends the interval Analytic Hierarchy Process (IAHP) to non-complete information environments with a multi-objective optimization model (MOP4) to recover missing entries while maintaining consistency. Sufficient conditions for full matrix consistency are established, and a possibility degree-based ranking mechanism is used to get priority orderings. The framework is validated in a real post-earthquake rescue prioritization case in central Myanmar (including Sagaing Division) following the March 28, 2025, 7.9-magnitude seismic event. Four criteria are assessed by experts under partial information. Results show X7 and X5 are top-priority for immediate rescue, and reveal a tension between rescue urgency and feasibility that single-criterion approaches miss. Comparative analysis confirms the framework&apos;s robustness, consistency, and adaptability compared to conventional approaches. The findings contribute to uncertain group decision-making theory and provide tools for emergency management within the 72 - hour post-disaster window.</p>
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