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Article type: Research Article
Authors: Ashraf, Shahzaiba | Abdullah, Saleema; * | Aslam, Muhammadb
Affiliations: [a] Department of Mathematics, Abdul Wali Khan University, Mardan, Pakistan | [b] Department of Mathematics, College of Science, King Khalid University, Abha, Saudi Arabia
Correspondence: [*] Corresponding author. Saleem Abdullah, Department of Mathematics, Abdul Wali Khan University, Mardan, Pakistan. E-mail: saleemabdullah@awkum.edu.pk.
Abstract: The spherical fuzzy set (SFS) is one of the most important concepts to accommodate more uncertainties than the intuitionistic fuzzy set, Pythagorean fuzzy set, picture fuzzy set and hence its applications are more extensive. Keeping the feature and the importance of the SFS, the objective of this paper is to present some robust symmetric operational laws for SFSs. Associated with these laws, we define some series of new aggregation operators named as spherical fuzzy (SF) symmetric weighted averaging, SF ordered weighted averaging and SF hybrid weighted averaging operators to aggregate the SF information. Afterwards, we present a group decision making technique to solve the multi attribute group decision making (MAGDM) based on proposed symmetric aggregation operators and illustrate with a numerical example of renewable energy source selection as a real-life practical example to validate it. A comparative analysis is also conducted to show the superiorities of the proposed method.
Keywords: Spherical fuzzy sets, symmetric sum, symmetric aggregation operators, decision making technique
DOI: 10.3233/JIFS-191819
Journal: Journal of Intelligent & Fuzzy Systems, vol. 38, no. 4, pp. 5241-5255, 2020
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