Some induced geometric aggregation operators with intuitionistic fuzzy information and their application to group decision making

With respect to multiple attribute group decision making (MAGDM) problems in which both the attribute weights and the expert weights take the form of real numbers, attribute values take the form of intuitionistic fuzzy numbers or interval-valued intuitionistic fuzzy numbers, some new group decision making analysis methods are developed. Firstly, some operational laws, score function and accuracy function of intuitionistic fuzzy numbers or interval-valued intuitionistic fuzzy numbers are introduced. Then two new aggregation operators: induced intuitionistic fuzzy ordered weighted geometric (I-IFOWG) operator and induced interval-valued intuitionistic fuzzy ordered weighted geometric (I-IIFOWG) operator are proposed, and some desirable properties of the I-IFOWG and I-IIFOWG operators are studied, such as commutativity, idempotency and monotonicity. An I-IFOWG and IFWG (intuitionistic fuzzy weighted geometric) operators-based approach is developed to solve the MAGDM problems in which both the attribute weights and the expert weights take the form of real numbers, attribute values take the form of intuitionistic fuzzy numbers. Further, we extend the developed models and procedures based on I-IIFOWG and IIFWG (interval-valued intuitionistic fuzzy weighted geometric) operators to solve the MAGDM problems in which both the attribute weights and the expert weights take the form of real numbers, attribute values take the form of interval-valued intuitionistic fuzzy numbers. Finally, some illustrative examples are given to verify the developed approach and to demonstrate its practicality and effectiveness.     

Some geometric aggregation operators based on intuitionistic fuzzy sets

The weighted geometric (WG) operator and the ordered weighted geometric (OWG) operator are two common aggregation operators in the field of information fusion. But these two aggregation operators are usually used in situations where the given arguments are expressed as crisp numbers or linguistic values. In this paper, we develop some new geometric aggregation operators, such as the intuitionistic fuzzy weighted geometric (IFWG) operator, the intuitionistic fuzzy ordered weighted geometric (IFOWG) operator, and the intuitionistic fuzzy hybrid geometric (IFHG) operator, which extend the WG and OWG operators to accommodate the environment in which the given arguments are intuitionistic fuzzy sets which are characterized by a membership function and a non-membership function. Some numerical examples are given to illustrate the developed operators. Finally, we give an application of the IFHG operator to multiple attribute decision making based on intuitionistic fuzzy sets.     

Some induced intuitionistic fuzzy aggregation operators applied to multi-attribute group decision making

In this paper, we define various induced intuitionistic fuzzy aggregation operators, including induced intuitionistic fuzzy ordered weighted averaging (OWA) operator, induced intuitionistic fuzzy hybrid averaging (I-IFHA) operator, induced interval-valued intuitionistic fuzzy OWA operator, and induced interval-valued intuitionistic fuzzy hybrid averaging (I-IIFHA) operator. We also establish various properties of these operators. And then, an approach based on I-IFHA operator and intuitionistic fuzzy weighted averaging (WA) operator is developed to solve multi-attribute group decision-making (MAGDM) problems. In such problems, attribute weights and the decision makers' (DMs') weights are real numbers and attribute values provided by the DMs are intuitionistic fuzzy numbers (IFNs), and an approach based on I-IIFHA operator and interval-valued intuitionistic fuzzy WA operator is developed to solve MAGDM problems where the attribute values provided by the DMs are interval-valued IFNs. Furthermore, induced intuitionistic fuzzy hybrid geometric operator and induced interval-valued intuitionistic fuzzy hybrid geometric operator are proposed. Finally, a numerical example is presented to illustrate the developed approaches.     

Intuitionistic fuzzy geometric aggregation operators based on einstein operations

Intuitionistic fuzzy information aggregation plays an important part in Atanassov's intuitionistic fuzzy set theory, which has emerged to be a new research direction receiving more and more attention in recent years. In this paper, we first introduce some operations on intuitionistic fuzzy sets, such as Einstein sum, Einstein product, Einstein exponentiation, etc., and further develop some new geometric aggregation operators, such as the intuitionistic fuzzy Einstein weighted geometric operator and the intuitionistic fuzzy Einstein ordered weighted geometric operator, which extend the weighted geometric (WG) operator and the ordered weighted geometric (OWG) operator to accommodate the environment in which the given arguments are intuitionistic fuzzy values. We also establish some desirable properties of these operators, such as commutativity, idempotency and monotonicity, and give some numerical examples to illustrate the developed aggregation operators. In addition, we compare the proposed operators with the existing intuitionistic fuzzy geometric operators and get the corresponding relations. Finally, we apply the intuitionistic fuzzy Einstein weighted geometric operator to deal with multiple attribute decision making under intuitionistic fuzzy environments. © 2011 Wiley Periodicals, Inc.     

Generalized Atanassov’s intuitionistic fuzzy power geometric operators and their application to multiple attribute group decision making

In this paper, we extend the power geometric (PG) operator and the power ordered weighted geometric (POWG) operator [Z.S. Xu, R.R. Yager, Power-geometric operators and their use in group decision making, IEEE Transactions on Fuzzy Systems 18 (2010) 94–105] to Atanassov’s intuitionistic fuzzy environments, i.e., we develop a series of generalized Atanassov’s intuitionistic fuzzy power geometric operators to aggregate input arguments that are Atanassov’s intuitionistic fuzzy numbers (IFNs). Then, we study some desired properties of these aggregation operators and investigate the relationships among these operators. Furthermore, we apply these aggregation operators to develop some methods for multiple attribute group decision making with Atanassov’s intuitionistic fuzzy information. Finally, two practical examples are provided to illustrate the proposed methods.     

基于直觉模糊集改进算子的多目标决策方法

定义了三角和区间直觉模糊集的一些运算法则,给出了直觉模糊集两个改进算子,即三角模糊数加权算术平均算子（FIFWAA） 和区间直觉模糊数加权几何平均算子（FIFWGA）。在此基础上, 提出用精确函数解决记分函数无法决策的问题,以保证记分函数的严密性与合理性。给出了一种属性权重不完全确定且属性值以三角和区间直觉模糊数给出的多目标决策方法,通过实例分析结果证明了运用直觉模糊集改进算子进行多目标决策方法的有效性和正确性。     

An approach for multiple attribute group decision making problems with interval-valued intuitionistic trapezoidal fuzzy numbers

This article proposes an approach to resolve multiple attribute group decision making (MAGDM) problems with interval-valued intuitionistic trapezoidal fuzzy numbers (IVITFNs). We first introduce the cut set of IVITFNs and investigate the attitudinal score and accuracy expected functions for IVITFNs. Their novelty is that they allow the comparison of IVITFNs by taking into accounting of the experts’ risk attitude. Based on these expected functions, a ranking method for IVITFNs is proposed and a ranking sensitivity analysis method with respect to the risk attitude is developed. To aggregate the information with IVITFNs, we study the desirable properties of the interval-valued intuitionistic trapezoidal fuzzy weighted geometric (IVITFWG) operator, the interval-valued intuitionistic trapezoidal fuzzy ordered weighted geometric (IVITFOWG) operator, and the interval-valued intuitionistic trapezoidal fuzzy hybrid geometric (IVITFHG) operator. It is worth noting that the aggregated value by using these operators is also an interval-valued intuitionistic trapezoidal fuzzy value. Then, based on these expected functions and aggregating operators, an approach is proposed to solve MAGDM problems in which the attribute values take the form of interval-valued intuitionistic fuzzy numbers and the expert weights take the form of real numbers. Finally, an illustrative example is given to verify the developed approach and to demonstrate its practicality and effectiveness.     

Generalized aggregation operators for intuitionistic fuzzy sets

The generalized ordered weighted averaging (GOWA) operators are a new class of operators, which were introduced by Yager (Fuzzy Optim Decision Making 2004;3:93–107). However, it seems that there is no investigation on these aggregation operators to deal with intuitionistic fuzzy or interval‐valued intuitionistic fuzzy information. In this paper, we first develop some new generalized aggregation operators, such as generalized intuitionistic fuzzy weighted averaging operator, generalized intuitionistic fuzzy ordered weighted averaging operator, generalized intuitionistic fuzzy hybrid averaging operator, generalized interval‐valued intuitionistic fuzzy weighted averaging operator, generalized interval‐valued intuitionistic fuzzy ordered weighted averaging operator, generalized interval‐valued intuitionistic fuzzy hybrid average operator, which extend the GOWA operators to accommodate the environment in which the given arguments are both intuitionistic fuzzy sets that are characterized by a membership function and a nonmembership function, and interval‐valued intuitionistic fuzzy sets, whose fundamental characteristic is that the values of its membership function and nonmembership function are intervals rather than exact numbers, and study their properties. Then, we apply them to multiple attribute decision making with intuitionistic fuzzy or interval‐valued intuitionistic fuzzy information. © 2009 Wiley Periodicals, Inc.     

模糊数直觉模糊几何集成算子及其在决策中的应用

模糊数直觉模糊集是直觉模糊集的拓展.针对模糊数直觉模糊信息的集成问题,定义了模糊数直觉模糊数的一些运算法则,基于这些法则给出了一些新的几何集成算子,即模糊数直觉模糊加权几何(FIFWG)算子、模糊数直觉模糊有序加权几何(FIFOWG)算子和模糊数直觉模糊混合几何(FIFHG)算子.在此基础上,提出一种属性权重确知且属性值以模糊数直觉模糊数形式给出的多属性群决策方法.最后通过实例分析结果证明了该方法的有效性.     

The induced generalized aggregation operators for intuitionistic fuzzy sets and their application in group decision making

In this paper, we present the induced generalized intuitionistic fuzzy ordered weighted averaging (I-GIFOWA) operator. It is a new aggregation operator that generalized the IFOWA operator, including all the characteristics of both the generalized IFOWA and the induced IFOWA operators. It provides a very general formulation that includes as special cases a wide range of aggregation operators for intuitionistic fuzzy information, including all the particular cases of the I-IFOWA operator, GIFOWA operator and the induced intuitionistic fuzzy ordered geometric (I-IFOWG) operator. We also present the induced generalized interval-valued intuitionistic fuzzy ordered weighted averaging (I-GIIFOWA) operator to accommodate the environment in which the given arguments are interval-valued intuitionistic fuzzy sets. Further, we develop procedures to apply them to solve group multiple attribute decision making problems with intuitionistic fuzzy or interval-valued intuitionistic fuzzy information. Finally, we present their application to show the effectiveness of the developed methods.     

基于广义直觉语言算子的多属性群决策方法

针对属性权重未知,属性值为直觉语言数的多属性决策问题,提出了一种基于直觉语言熵和广义直觉语言算子的群决策方法.定义了直觉语言熵,并利用直觉语言熵确定属性权重,提出了三种直觉语言算子:广义直觉语言加权几何平均(GILWGA)算子、广义直觉语言有序加权几何(GILOWG)算子及广义直觉语言混合几何(GILHG)算子.利用GILWGA和GILHG算子集结信息,采用基于直觉语言数的得分函数及精确函数进行方案排序与择优,最后通过一个算例说明了该方法的有效性和合理性.     

Some interval-valued intuitionistic fuzzy Schweizer–Sklar power aggregation operators and their application to supplier selection

Supplier selection is an important multiple attribute group decision-making (MAGDM) problem. How to choose a suitable supplier is an evaluation process with different alternatives of multiple attributes, and it also relates to the expression of the evaluation value. Considering Schweizer–Sklar t-conorm and t-norm (SSTT) can make the information aggregation process more flexible than others, and the power average (PA) operator can eliminate effects of unreasonable data from biased decision-makers. So, we extend SSTT to interval-valued intuitionistic fuzzy numbers (IVIFNs) and define Schweizer–Sklar operational rules of IVIFNs. Then, we combine the PA operator with Schweizer–Sklar operations, and propose the interval-valued intuitionistic fuzzy Schweizer–Sklar power average operator, the interval-valued intuitionistic fuzzy Schweizer–Sklar power weighted average (IVIFSSPWA) operator, the interval-valued intuitionistic fuzzy Schweizer–Sklar power geometric operator and the interval-valued intuitionistic fuzzy Schweizer–Sklar power weighted geometric (IVIFSSPWG) operator, respectively. Furthermore, we study some desirable characteristics of them and develop two methods on the basis of IVIFSSPWA and IVIFSSPWG operators. At the same time, we apply the two methods to deal with the MAGDM problems based on supplier selection. Finally, an illustrative example of supplier selection problem is given to testify the availability of the presented operators.     

Interval-valued intuitionistic fuzzy Frank aggregation operators and their applications to multiple attribute group decision making

Interval-valued intuitionistic fuzzy numbers (IVIFNs), which contain three ranges: the membership degree range, the non-membership degree range, and the hesitancy degree range, are very suitable to be used for depicting uncertain or fuzzy information. In this paper, we study the aggregation techniques of IVIFNs with the help of Frank operations. We first extend the Frank t-conorm and t-norm to interval-valued intuitionistic fuzzy environments and introduce several new operations of IVIFNs, such as Frank sum, Frank product, Frank scalar multiplication, and Frank exponentiation, based on which we develop several new interval-valued intuitionistic fuzzy aggregation operators, including the interval-valued intuitionistic fuzzy Frank weighted averaging operator and the interval-valued intuitionistic fuzzy Frank weighted geometric operator. We further establish various properties of these operators, give some special cases of them, and analyze the relationships between these operators. Moreover, we apply these operators to develop an approach for dealing with multiple attribute group decision making with interval-valued intuitionistic fuzzy information. Finally, a numerical example is provided to illustrate the practicality and effectiveness of the developed operators and approach.

     

Study on the ranking problems in multiple attribute decision making based on interval‐valued intuitionistic fuzzy numbers

This paper puts forward a new ranking method for multiple attribute decision‐making problems based on interval‐valued intuitionistic fuzzy set (IIFS) theory. First, the composed ordered weighted arithmetic averaging operator and composed ordered weighted geometric averaging operator are extended to the IIFSs in which they are, respectively, named interval‐valued intuitionistic fuzzy composed ordered weighted arithmetic averaging (IIFCOWA) operator and interval‐valued intuitionistic composed ordered weighted geometric averaging (IIFCOWG) operator. Afterwards, to compare interval‐valued intuitionistic fuzzy numbers, we define the concepts of the maximum, the minimum, and ranking function. Some properties associated with the concepts are investigated. Using the IIFCOWA or IIFCOWG operator, we establish the detailed steps of ranking alternatives (or attributes) in multiple attribute decision making. Finally, an illustrative example is provided to show that the proposed ranking method is feasible in multiple attribute decision making.     

Power geometric operators of trapezoidal intuitionistic fuzzy numbers and application to multi-attribute group decision making

As a special intuitionistic fuzzy set on a real number set, trapezoidal intuitionistic fuzzy numbers (TrIFNs) have the better capability to model ill-known quantities. The purpose of this paper is to develop some power geometric operators of TrIFNs and apply to multi-attribute group decision making (MAGDM) with TrIFNs. First, the lower and upper weighted possibility means of TrIFNs are introduced as well as weighted possibility means. Hereby, a new lexicographic method is developed to rank TrIFNs. The Minkowski distance between TrIFNs is defined. Then, four kinds of power geometric operators of TrIFNs are investigated including the power geometric operator of TrIFNs, power weighted geometric operator of TrIFNs, power ordered weighted geometric operator of TrIFNs and power hybrid geometric operator of TrIFNs. Their desirable properties are discussed. Four methods for MAGDM with TrIFNs are respectively proposed for the four cases whether the weight vectors of attributes and DMs are known or unknown. In these methods, the individual overall attribute values of alternatives are generated by using the power geometric or power weighted geometric operator of TrIFNs. The collective overall attribute values of alternatives are determined through constructing the multi-objective optimization model, which is transformed into the goal programming model to solve. Thus, the ranking order of alternatives is obtained according to the collective overall attribute values of alternatives. Finally, the green supplier selection problem is illustrated to demonstrate the application and validation of the proposed method.     

基于Choquet 积分的直觉不确定语言信息集结算子及其应用

基于直觉不确定语言信息,针对属性间不严格相互独立且具有较大关联度的群决策问题,提出了两种基于直觉不确定语言信息的Choquet积分算子.首先,分析了因属性关联使得以往直觉不确定语言信息集结算子失效的现象,对此引入模糊测度,提出了直觉不确定语言的Choquet加权算术平均算子(IULCWA)和直觉不确定语言的Choquet加权几何平均算子(IULCGM);然后,证明了算子的相关性质,研究了属性间相关的、属性值为直觉不确定语言数的多属性群决策方法;最后,通过实例分析说明了以往直觉不确定语言信息集结算子的局限性以及新算子的有效性.     

区间直觉模糊信息的集成方法及其在决策中的应用

对区间直觉模糊信息的集成方法进行了研究.定义了区间直觉模糊数的一些运算法则,并基于这些运算法则,给出区间直觉模糊数的加权算术和加权几何集成算子.定义了区间直觉模糊数的得分函数和精确函数,进而给出了区间直觉模糊数的一种简单的排序方法.最后提供了一种基于区间直觉模糊信息的决策途径,并进行了实例分析.     

Generalized intuitionistic fuzzy geometric interaction operators and their application to decision making

Considering that there may exist some interactions between membership function and non-membership function of different intuitionistic fuzzy sets, we present some new operational laws from the probability point of view and give a geometric interpretation of the new operations. Based on which, a new class of generalized intuitionistic fuzzy aggregation operators are developed, including the generalized intuitionistic fuzzy weighted geometric interaction averaging (GIFWGIA) operator, the generalized intuitionistic fuzzy ordered weighted geometric interaction averaging (GIFOWGIA) operator and the generalized intuitionistic fuzzy hybrid geometric interaction averaging (GIFHGIA) operator. The properties of these new generalized aggregation operators are investigated. Moreover, approaches to multiple attributes decision making are given based on the generalized aggregation operators under intuitionistic fuzzy environment, and an example is illustrated to show the validity and feasibility of new approach. Finally, we give a systematic comparison between the work of this paper and that of other papers.     

Intuitionistic Fuzzy Hybrid Weighted Aggregation Operators

Intuitionistic fuzzy sets (IFSs) have attracted more and more scholars’ attention due to their powerfulness in expressing vagueness and uncertainty. In the course of decision making with IFSs, aggregation operators play a very important role since they can be used to synthesize multidimensional evaluation values represented as intuitionistic fuzzy values into collective values. This paper proposes a family of intuitionistic fuzzy hybrid weighted aggregation operators, such as the intuitionistic fuzzy hybrid weighted averaging operator, the intuitionistic fuzzy hybrid weighted geometric operator, the generalized intuitionistic fuzzy hybrid weighted averaging operator, and the generalized intuitionistic fuzzy hybrid weighted geometric operator. All these newly developed operators not only can weight both the arguments and their ordered positions simultaneously but also have some desirable properties, such as idempotency, boundedness, and monotonicity. To show the applications of our proposed intuitionistic fuzzy hybrid weighted aggregation operators, a simple schema for decision making with intuitionistic fuzzy information is developed. An example concerning the human resource management is given to illustrate the validity and applicability of the proposed method and also the hybrid weighted aggregation operators.     

Induced generalized intuitionistic fuzzy OWA operator for multi-attribute group decision making

With respect to multi-attribute group decision making (MAGDM) problems in which both the attribute weights and the decision makers (DMs) weights take the form of real numbers, attribute values provided by the DMs take the form of intuitionistic fuzzy numbers, a new group decision making method is developed. Some operational laws, score function and accuracy function of intuitionistic fuzzy numbers are introduced at first. Then a new aggregation operator called induced generalized intuitionistic fuzzy ordered weighted averaging (IG-IFOWA) operator is proposed, which extend the induced generalized ordered weighted averaging (IGOWA) operator introduced by Merigo and Gil-Lafuente [Merigo, J. M., & Gil-Lafuente, A. M. (2009). The induced generalized OWA operator. Information Sciences, 179, 729-741] to accommodate the environment in which the given arguments are intuitionistic fuzzy sets that are characterized by a membership function and a non-membership function. Some desirable properties of the IG-IFOWA operator are studied, such as commutativity, idempotency, monotonicity and boundary. And then, an approach based on the IG-IFOWA and IFWA (intuitionistic fuzzy weighted averaging) operators is developed to solve MAGDM problems with intuitionistic fuzzy information. Finally, a numerical example is used to illustrate the developed approach.