Q-rung Orthopair Normal Fuzzy Aggregation Operators and Their Application in Multi-Attribute Decision-Making

Zaoli Yang, Xin Li, Zehong Cao and Jinqiu Li
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Zaoli Yang: College of Economics and Management, Beijing University of Technology, Beijing 100124, China
Xin Li: College of Economics and Management, Beijing University of Technology, Beijing 100124, China
Zehong Cao: Discipline of ICT, School of Technology, Environments and Design, College of Sciences and Engineering, University of Tasmania, Hobart, TAS 7001, Australia
Jinqiu Li: College of Economics and Management, Harbin Engineering University, Harbin 150001, China

Mathematics, 2019, vol. 7, issue 12, 1-26

Abstract: Q-rung orthopair fuzzy set (q-ROFS) is a powerful tool to describe uncertain information in the process of subjective decision-making, but not express vast objective phenomenons that obey normal distribution. For this situation, by combining the q-ROFS with the normal fuzzy number, we proposed a new concept of q-rung orthopair normal fuzzy (q-RONF) set. Firstly, we defined the conception, the operational laws, score function, and accuracy function of q-RONF set. Secondly, we presented some new aggregation operators to aggregate the q-RONF information, including the q-RONF weighted operators, the q-RONF ordered weighted operators, the q-RONF hybrid operator, and the generalized form of these operators. Furthermore, we discussed some desirable properties of the above operators, such as monotonicity, commutativity, and idempotency. Meanwhile, we applied the proposed operators to the multi-attribute decision-making (MADM) problem and established a novel MADM method. Finally, the proposed MADM method was applied in a numerical example on enterprise partner selection, the numerical result showed the proposed method can effectively handle the objective phenomena with obeying normal distribution and complicated fuzzy information, and has high practicality. The results of comparative and sensitive analysis indicated that our proposed method based on q-RONF aggregation operators over existing methods have stronger information aggregation ability, and are more suitable and flexible for MADM problems.

Keywords: normal fuzzy number; Q-rung orthopair normal fuzzy sets; q-RONF information aggregation operators; multi-attribute decision-making (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: C (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2019
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