Multiple Attribute Group Decision-Making Methods with Completely Unknown Weights in Intuitionistic Fuzzy Setting and Interval-Valued Intuitionistic Fuzzy Setting

Jun Ye ()
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Jun Ye: Shaoxing College of Arts and Sciences

Group Decision and Negotiation, 2013, vol. 22, issue 2, No 1, 173-188

Abstract: Abstract The existing multiple attribute group decision-making approaches based on intuitionistic fuzzy sets (IFSs) or interval-valued intuitionistic fuzzy sets (IVIFSs) are considered as the situation that the weights of experts are given beforehand and the attribute weights are known or unknown. To better describe the uncertain decision environment and solve the corresponding decision problem, multiple attribute group decision-making methods with completely unknown weights of both experts and attributes are proposed in intuitionistic fuzzy setting and interval-valued intuitionistic fuzzy setting. Entropy weight models can be used to determine the weights of both experts and attributes from intuitionistic fuzzy decision matrices or interval-valued intuitionistic fuzzy decision matrices, and then the evaluation formulas of weighted correlation coefficients between alternatives and the ideal alternative are introduced in intuitionistic fuzzy setting and interval-valued intuitionistic fuzzy setting. The alternatives can be ranked and the most desirable one(s) can be selected according to the values of the weighted correlation coefficients for IFSs or IVIFSs. Finally, two numerical examples demonstrate the effectiveness of the proposed methods: they are capable for handling the multiple attribute group decision-making problems with completely unknown weights.

Keywords: Intuitionistic fuzzy set; Interval-valued intuitionistic fuzzy set; Entropy weight; Correlation coefficient; Multiple attribute group decision-making (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2013
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