Triangular Atanassov’s intuitionistic fuzzy Bonferroni mean and application to supplier selection

Article type: Research Article

Authors: Yu, Dejian^*

Affiliations: School of Information, Zhejiang University of Finance and Economics, Hangzhou, China

Correspondence: [*] Correspondence to: Dejian Yu, School of Information,Zhejiang University of Finance and Economics, Hangzhou, 310018, China. Tel.: +86 15336884185; Fax: +86 57187554123; yudejian62@126.com

Abstract: The triangular Atanassov’s intuitionistic fuzzy set (TAIFS), whose membership and non-membership degrees are described by triangular fuzzy numbers, is more suited to real world problems. In this paper, two different aggregation operators based on Bonferroni mean are proposed for aggregating TAIF numbers (TAIFNs). Our proposed operators differ from existing ones because they have the ability to describe the relationships between the aggregated arguments. In addition, relationship between proposed operators and the previous work are disused. After that, an example about supplier selection in the field of supply chain management is given to show the practicability and effectiveness of the proposed operators.

Keywords: AIFS, aggregation operator, supplier selection, decision making

DOI: 10.3233/IFS-151557

Journal: Journal of Intelligent & Fuzzy Systems, vol. 28, no. 6, pp. 2785-2791, 2015