Geometric Aggregation Operators for Solving Multicriteria Group Decision-Making Problems Based on Complex Pythagorean Fuzzy Sets
Abstract
:1. Introduction
2. Preliminaries
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- If,
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- If,, then
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- If,, then there are three conditions:
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- If,
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- If,
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- If,
3. Basic Operations under CPyFNs
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- Symmetry property of score function: Let be a group of CPyFNs, and let be their corresponding complements, then .
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- Monotonicity property of score functions: If be a CPyFN, then is monotonically decreasing when are increasing and monotonically increasing with and decreasing.
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- Symmetry property of accuracy function: If be a CPyFN and be their corresponding complement function, then .
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- Monotonicity property of accuracy functions: If be a CPyFN, then the accuracy function is monotonically increasing with the terms and are increasing.
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- Commutative laws:
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- Associative laws:
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- Distributive laws:
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- .
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- By Definition 6, we have
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- Using Definition 6, with , we have
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- Since are CPyFNs, then
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- Since and are CPyFNs, then
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- Since, and are CPyFNs, then
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4. Complex Pythagorean Fuzzy Geometric Aggregation Operators
- Step 1: For n = 2, we haveThus, we haveThus, for n = 2, Equation (2) is true.
- Step 2: Suppose Equation (2) is true for n = k, where k is any positive integer.
- Step 3: Assume that Equation (2) true for n = k, we show that it is true for n = k + 1.Thus, by principle of mathematical induction, Equation (2) holds for all positive integer. □
5. Application of the Novel Approaches
Algorithm 1. Complex Pythagorean Fuzzy Geometric Aggregation Operators |
Let be the set of m alternatives and be the set of n criteria whose associated vector is with restriction, such as and . . Let be a group of k experts whose weighted vector is with settings, such as and . The main steps are as follows (Figure 1 for explanation):
Step 1: Develop matrices based on the expertise of experts. Step 2: Make a single matrix out of all the separate matrices by combining them using the specified operators. Step 3: Again, compute all of the preference values using the specified techniques. Step 4: Calculate the scores using all preference values. Step 5: Choose the one with the highest score value. |
6. Illustrative Example
6.1. By Algebraic Operators
- Step 1: The decision matrices can be constructed according to the ideas of experts as:
- Step 2: Combine all the individual matrices into one matrix using the CPyFWG operator, where .
- Step 3: Again, using CPyFWG operator with , and obtain
- Step 4: Computing the score functions as:
- Step 5: Thus, the best option is .
6.2. By Induced Aggregation Operators
- Step 1: Construct the following same matrices based on experts’ ideas:
- Step 2: Combine all the individual matrices into a single matrix using 1-CPFOWG aggregation operator, where .
- Step 3: Again, using I-CPyFOWG operator, where , and obtain all the preference values as below:
- Step 4: Again, computing the score functions as below.
- Step 5: Thus, the best option is .
7. Comparative Analysis
8. Sensitivity Analysis
9. Conclusions
Author Contributions
Funding
Data Availability Statement
Conflicts of Interest
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