Multiple Attribute Decision-Making Methods with Unbalanced Linguistic Variables Based on Maclaurin Symmetric Mean Operators

Fei Teng, Peide Liu, Li Zhang and Juan Zhao
Additional contact information
Fei Teng: School of Management Science and Engineering, Shandong University of Finance and Economics, Jinan, Shandong, China
Peide Liu: School of Management Science and Engineering, Shandong University of Finance and Economics, Jinan, Shandong, China
Li Zhang: #x2020;School of Economic and Management, Shandong Yingcai University, Jinan, Shandong, China
Juan Zhao: #x2020;School of Economic and Management, Shandong Yingcai University, Jinan, Shandong, China

International Journal of Information Technology & Decision Making (IJITDM), 2019, vol. 18, issue 01, 105-146

Abstract: In this paper, we firstly introduced the unbalanced linguistic term sets, the linguistic transforming methodology, the Maclaurin symmetric mean (MSM) operator and dual MSM (DMSM) operator. Then, we proposed the closed operational rules of unbalanced linguistic variables, and several new MSM aggregation operators, including unbalanced linguistic MSM (ULMSM) operator, weighted unbalanced linguistic MSM (WULMSM) operator, unbalanced linguistic DMSM (ULDMSM) operator and weighted unbalanced linguistic DMSM (WULDMSM) operator. Further, we proposed two multiple attribute decision-making (MADM) methods under unbalanced linguistic environments based on the WULMSM operator and WULDMSM operator, respectively. Finally, a numerical example is used to show the applicability and effectiveness of the proposed MADM methods and to reveal their advantages by comparing with the existing methods.

Keywords: Unbalanced linguistic term set; Maclaurin symmetric mean; multiple attribute decision-making (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2019
References: View references in EconPapers View complete reference list from CitEc
Citations:

Downloads: (external link)
http://www.worldscientific.com/doi/abs/10.1142/S0219622018500013
Access to full text is restricted to subscribers

Related works:
This item may be available elsewhere in EconPapers: Search for items with the same title.

Export reference: BibTeX RIS (EndNote, ProCite, RefMan) HTML/Text

Persistent link: https://EconPapers.repec.org/RePEc:wsi:ijitdm:v:18:y:2019:i:01:n:s0219622018500013

Ordering information: This journal article can be ordered from

DOI: 10.1142/S0219622018500013

Access Statistics for this article

International Journal of Information Technology & Decision Making (IJITDM) is currently edited by Yong Shi

More articles in International Journal of Information Technology & Decision Making (IJITDM) from World Scientific Publishing Co. Pte. Ltd.
Bibliographic data for series maintained by Tai Tone Lim ().