An Integrated Maximizing Consistency and Multi-Choice Goal Programming Approach for Hybrid Multiple Criteria Group Decision Making Based on Interval-Valued Intuitionistic Fuzzy Number

Article type: Research Article

Authors: Zhang, Xiaolu

Affiliations: The Collaborative Innovation Center, Jiangxi University of Finance and Economics, Nanchang 330013, China, e-mail: xiaolu_jy@163.com

Abstract: Interval-valued intuitionistic fuzzy numbers (IVIFNs) characterized by a membership function and a non-membership function with values that are intervals, have strong ability to handle imprecise and ambiguous information in real-world applications. This paper proposes an integrated maximizing consistency and multi-choice goal programming (MCGP) approach to handle hybrid multi-criteria group decision making problems based on IVIFNs. Firstly, the hybrid decision information (including crisp numbers, intervals, intuitionistic fuzzy numbers and linguistic variables) are normalized into the IVIFNs. Then, an ordinal consistency index and a cardinal consistency index are proposed to measure the consistency between the individual opinion and the group opinion, respectively. And an optimal model based on maximizing consistency is constructed to derive the weights of experts. Afterwards, the comprehensive ratings and the ranking values of alternatives are obtained by the hybrid weighted aggregation operator and the proposed ratio function of IVIFNs, respectively. Furthermore, a MCGP model based on the ranking values is constructed to identify the optimal alternatives and their optimum quantities. At length, an illustrative case is provided to verify the proposed approach.

Keywords: hybrid multiple criteria group decision making, interval-valued intuitionistic fuzzy number, consistency, multi-choice goal programming

Journal: Informatica, vol. 26, no. 4, pp. 705-726, 2015