Dombi Aggregation of Trapezoidal Neutrosophic Number for Charging Station Decision-Making
Abstract
1. Introduction
1.1. Review of the Literature
1.2. Motivation of the Study
1.3. Research Gap
1.4. Significance of the Research
- Based on and , we develop new operations of TzVNFNs and the proposed operators preserve algebraic symmetry through commutative property.
- We propose three accumulation procedures: TzVNFDWG, TzVNFDOWG, and TzVNFDHG of TzVNFN class.
- Using the suggested operators, we propose a trapezoidal-valued neutrosophic fuzzy MAGDM (TzVNFMAGDM) algorithm.
- Lastly, a comparison study is carried out by evaluating the results of numerical examples with those of other methods that are currently in use.
1.5. Organization of the Paper
2. Preliminaries
- 1.
- if and only if
- 2.
- if and only if
3. An Operational Rule Depending on and of the Set of
- (i)
- .
- (ii)
- .
- (iii)
- .
- (iv)
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4. Proposed Accumulation Operators
4.1. Trapezoidal Neutrosophic Dombi Weighted Geometric Operator
- Now, for , we have
- Let be the collection of s. Let and .
- Then,
4.2. Trapezoidal Neutrosophic Dombi Ordered Weighted Geometric Operator
- are equal and for all where then,
4.3. Trapezoidal-Valued Neutrosophic Dombi Hybrid Geometric Operator
5. A Trapezoidal-Valued Neutrosophic Multi-Attribute Group Decision-Making Method
- Step 1:
- Collection of data: Linguistic terms are used to collect data from decision-making. Using Table 1, linguistic terms can be transformed into trapezoidal-valued neutrosophic numbers and represented as a matrix for decisions and preserves symmetry in fuzzy evaluations and input weights.
- Step 2:
- Normalisation of the neutrosophic choice matrix using trapezoidal values: The trapezoidal-valued neutrosophic decision matrix acquired in Step 1 is normalized toIn other words, the normalization indicates that
- 1
- The membership value of is changed to non membership value , and the non-membership value is changed to if the condition falls into the cost category.
- 2
- if the criteria is inside the benefit category. If every criterion taken into account for the problem is a benefit criterion, then this step can be omitted.
- Step 3:
- Accumulated performance
- (a)
- Transformation of multi-attribute group decision matrix into an aggregated decision matrix: This is carried out by the use of the operators from Equation (2). Is,
- (b)
- Aggregated performance of alternatives regarding all the criteria. This is derived by using the operator from (2) on every row of the combined matrix of decisions that was produced in Step 3(a).
- Step 4:
- Score Matrix: Employ the scoring functions specified in Definition (8) to obtain the score for each alternative aggregated performance acquired in Step 3(b).
- Step 5:
- Alternatives Ranking: According to the ranking concept, the options are ranked.
5.1. Problem Description
5.2. Solving the Proposed Trapezoidal-Valued Neutrosophic Multi-Attribute Group Decision-Making Algorithm
- Step 1:
- Data Collection: A panel of three experts is considered, which assesses the performance of five alternatives based on eight attributes. Data from the panel is gathered using the seven-point linguistic scale displayed in Table 3. as indicated in Table 2. It displays the information gathered from the decision-makers. The linguistic words derived from the panel’s data are then transformed into with the help of Table 3. For instance, upon gathering the information from every expert, we acquired the linguistic term for alternative 1 concerning criterion 1 for expert 1 as , which is also displayed in Table 2. Therefore, this linguistic term is substituted with the Table 3 provides definitions for terms.
- Step 2:
- Normalization: Since every criterion in this particular instance is benefit type, no normalizing procedure is required.
- Step 3:
- (a) Accumulated Decision Matrix: The accumulated decision matrix is derived in this step by utilizing Equation (2). This stage yields an accumulated choice matrix, which Table 3 displays. As an example, see Table 2. We establish criterion 1 and combine the value for alternative 1 in relation to the provided values from every specialist. In other words, employing Formula (4) , we obtain Table 4’s first row and first column entry as . In a similar manner, we can compute every other entry in Table 4.
- Step 3:
- (b) Accumulated performance of Alternatives: To obtain the accumulated performance of each alternative with regard to the four criteria, as shown in Table 5, apply Equation (2) to each row in Table 4. For instance, we accumulate the value of each criterion with respect to Table 5 in order to produce the first option ., that is, , , , using Equation (2). The weights of each criterion that we took into account while determining the overall performance of the options are listed below: and .
- Step 4:
- Score Values: The second column of Table 5 shows the total efficiency of the four options with respect to the four criteria. We may obtain the score value for each option by applying the ranking principle and scoring function to each entry in the second column, as indicated in Table 5’s third column. The final scores for the four choices are as follows:
- Step 5:
- Alternatives ranking: We rank the options as follows using the score values that were supplied in Step 4. Below is the final ranking of the choices,
5.3. Comparative Analysis
5.4. Sensitive Analysis
5.5. Advantages of the Suggested MAGDM Strategy
- To begin, the entire ordering principle on TzVNFNs is used in our suggested MAGDM technique, which is a broad category encompassing TNFNs, NFNs, and IVNFNs. Thus, real-valued NFNs, IVNFNs, and TNFNs are among the issues that can be solved using the algorithm suggested in the subclass context.
- Second, our suggested approach can always rank the two distinct TzVNFNs since the MAGDM algorithm incorporates the entire ordering principle. In other words, two distinct options (different performances according to separate criteria) will never be ranked as equal by the suggested MAGDM technique.
- Thirdly, by adjusting the Dombi variable, the and oriented aggregating operator provides the benefit of making the aggregating procedure simpler. Flexibility may be achieved by altering the Dombi operator variable. Because of its adjustable parameters, it is adaptable to other t norms and t-conorms that are currently in use. We may modify the norm used for accumulation by changing the variable’s Dombi accumulation operator value, which also changes the parameter’s operational behavior. The primary benefit of this technique is that the evaluation takes into account the imprecision and ambiguity present in the real-time data.
6. Conclusions
Limitations and Future Scope
Funding
Data Availability Statement
Conflicts of Interest
Appendix A
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- (ii)
- (iii)
- If
- (iv)
- If
Appendix B. (Proof of Theorem 1)
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- (ii)
- (iii)
- Now,
- (iv)
Appendix C. (Proof of Theorem 3)
Appendix D. (Proof of Theorem 4)
Appendix E. (Proof of Theorem 5)
- where
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Symbol | Description |
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Trapezoidal-Valued Neutrosophic Fuzzy Number | |
Weight of the ith attribute or expert | |
Control parameter in Dombi aggregation | |
Truth component of the TzVNFN | |
Indeterminacy component of the TzVNFN | |
Falsity component of the TzVNFN | |
Trapezoidal Neutrosophic Dombi Weighted Geometric operator | |
Trapezoidal Neutrosophic Dombi Ordered Weighted Geometric operator | |
Trapezoidal Neutrosophic Dombi Hybrid Geometric operator | |
General scalar or normalization constant |
Experts | Alternatives | Attribute | |||
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AE | F | AF | HF | ||
E | HF | AE | E | ||
HF | AF | F | AE | ||
E | AF | H | AE | ||
F | H | E | F | ||
AF | AE | HF | E | ||
F | E | AF | F | ||
HF | F | E | AE | ||
AF | AE | AF | H | ||
E | H | E | F | ||
AE | F | AF | HF | ||
E | HF | AE | E | ||
HF | AF | F | AE | ||
AE | F | E | H | ||
H | AF | AE | E |
Linguistic Variables | s |
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E (Empty) | (0.21, 0.26, 0.31, 0.35), (0.11, 0.23, 0.32, 0.42), (0.64, 0.73, 0.79, 0.81) |
AE (almost empty) | (0.41, 0.39, 0.56, 0.59), (0.31, 0.38, 0.42, 0.17), (0.82, 0.91, 0.72) |
H (Half) | (0.52, 0.59, 0.45, 0.55), (0.53, 0.49, 0.61, 0.39), (0.55, 0.45, 0.35, 0.65) |
AF (almost full) | (0.64, 0.57, 0.49, 0.81), (0.71, 0.62, 0.73, 0.61), (0.12, 0.15, 0.21, 0.31) |
F (Full) | (0.81, 0.90, 0.82, 0.79), (0.80, 0.70, 0.60, 0.50), (0.15, 0.20, 0.30, 0.35) |
Alternative | Attribute () |
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(0.575, 0.521, 0.502, 0.753), (0.564, 0.550, 0.636, 0.401), (0.477, 0.461, 0.344, 0.386) | |
(0.393, 0.419, 0.525, 0.555), (0.262, 0.382, 0.431, 0.248), (0.322, 0.411, 0.478, 0.522) | |
(0.633, 0.712, 0.581, 0.648), (0.637, 0.576, 0.604, 0.438), (0.216, 0.162, 0.124, 0.304) | |
(0.378, 0.387, 0.465, 0.558), (0.259, 0.374, 0.449, 0.255), (0.727, 0.731, 0.679, 0.713) | |
(0.379, 0.449, 0.430, 0.495), (0.255, 0.383, 0.478, 0.417), (0.541, 0.559, 0.597, 0.698) | |
Alternative | Attribute () |
(0.297, 0.343, 0.417, 0.456), (0.173, 0.307, 0.383, 0.298), (0.555, 0.640, 0.605, 0.669) | |
(0.360, 0.427, 0.396, 0.469), (0.247, 0.365, 0.479, 0.398), (0.363, 0.331, 0.291, 0.609) | |
(0.326, 0.383, 0.418, 0.486), (0.192, 0.341, 0.427, 0.472), (0.069, 0.120, 0.227, 0.302) | |
(0.663, 0.706, 0.593, 0.701), (0.679, 0.606, 0.625, 0.476), (0.325, 0.288, 0.300, 0.478) | |
(0526, 0.5036, 0.499, 0.671), (0.487, 0.498, 0.579, 0.322), (0.626, 0.604, 0.502, 0.599) | |
Alternative | Attribute () |
(0.540, 0.585, 0.467, 0.587), (0.558, 0.511, 0.630, 0.420), (0.200, 0.119, 0.088, 0.377) | |
(0.635, 0.627, 0.633, 0.745), (0.590, 0.579, 0.581, 0.374), (0.477, 0.462, 0.346, 0.388) | |
(0.407, 0.443, 0.448, 0.578), (0.271, 0.417, 0.511, 0.517), (0.418, 0.557, 0.690, 0.755) | |
(0.318, 0.385, 0.412, 0.460), (0.188, 0.332, 0.418, 0.434), (0.542, 0.613, 0.679, 0.727) | |
(0.378, 0.387, 0.465, 0.558), (0.259, 0.374, 0.449, 0.255), (0.727, 0.731, 0.679, 0.713) | |
Alternative | Attribute () |
(0.238, 0.292, 0.330, 0.377), (0.130, 0.257, 0.353, 0.413), (0.418, 0.557, 0.690, 0.755) | |
(0.475, 0.505, 0.492, 0.637), (0.345, 0.475, 0.552, 0.527), (0.264, 0.353, 0.434, 0.470 | |
(0.458, 0.469, 0.499, 0.569), (0.391, 0.428, 0.497, 0.236), (0.635, 0.579, 0.419, 0.589) | |
(0.458, 0.469, 0.499, 0.569), (0.391, 0.428, 0.497, 0.236), (0.742, 0.717, 0.608, 0.708) | |
(0.312, 0.376, 0.396, 0.448), (0.186, 0.325, 0.418, 0.423), (0.563, 0.622, 0.680, 0.736) |
Alternatives Final Aggregated Value | Score Value |
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(0.4125, 0.4352, 0.4265, 0.5432), (0.3562, 0.4062, 0.5005, 0.383), (0.4125, 0.4442, 0.4317, 0.546) | 0.528 |
(0.4657, 0.4945, 0.5115, 0.607), (0.4185, 0.472, 0.506, 0.359), (0.3565, 0.3892, 0.3875, 0.4977) | 0.558 |
(0.456, 0.5017, 0.4865, 0.5702), (0.3727, 0.4405, 0.5097, 0.4157), (0.3345, 0.3545, 0.345, 0.4875) | 0.563 |
(0.4542, 0.4867, 0.4922, 0.572), (0.3792, 0.435, 0.4972, 0.3502), (0.584, 0.587, 0.566, 0.6565) | 0.495 |
(0.3987, 0.4289, 0.4475, 0.572), (0.2967, 0.3951, 0.4810, 0.3544), (0.6142, 0.629, 0.6145, 0.6865) | 0.481 |
(0.49, 0.81), (0.73, 0.61), (0.21, 0.31) | (0.49, 0.81), (0.73, 0.61), (0.21, 0.31) | (0.45, 0.55), (0.61, 0.39), (0.35, 0.65) |
(0.56, 0.59), (0.42, 0.17), (0.91, 0.72) | (0.31, 0.35), (0.32, 0.42), (0.79, 0.81) | (0.45, 0.55), (0.61, 0.39), (0.35, 0.65) |
(0.31, 0.35), (0.32, 0.42), (0.79, 0.81) | (0.45, 0.55), (0.61, 0.39), (0.35, 0.65) | (0.56, 0.59), (0.42, 0.17), (0.91, 0.72) |
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