Trapezoid fuzzy linguistic prioritized weighted average operators and their application to multiple attribute group decision-making

Rajkumar Verma1, Bhu Dev Sharma1
1Department of Mathematics, Jaypee Institute of Information Technology (Deemed University), Uttar Pradesh, India

Tóm tắt

The prioritized weighted average (PWA) operator was originally introduced by Yager. The prominent characteristic of the PWA operator is that it takes into account prioritization among attributes and decision makers. Motivated by the idea of PWA operator, we develop some prioritized weighted aggregation operators for aggregating trapezoid fuzzy linguistic information. The properties of the new aggregation operators are studied in detail. Furthermore, based on the proposed operators, some approaches to deal with multiple attribute group decision-making problems under trapezoid fuzzy linguistic environments are developed. Finally, a practical example is provided to illustrate the multiple attribute group decision-making process.

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