An integrated method for cognitive complex multiple experts multiple criteria decision making based on ELECTRE III with weighted Borda rule

•The outranking relations are calculated based on the score function of HFLEs.•A combinative weight determining method is introduced.•We use the weighted Borda rule to aggregate the rankings of individual experts.•Ordinal consensus measures are proposed to identify the reliability of the result.•The integrated HFL-ELECTRE III method is applied to hospital ranking problem.