Threat assessment based on single-valued neutrosophic TOPSIS and three-way decision

Article type: Research Article

Authors: Xu, Dongsheng | Sun, Yuhuan^{; *} | He, Xinyang

Affiliations: School of Science, Southwest Petroleum University, Chengdu, China

Correspondence: [*] Corresponding author. Yuhuan Sun. E-mail: 17381583846@163.com.

Abstract: This paper provides a novel target threat assessment model that utilizes TOPSIS and three-way decision-making under a single-valued neutrosophic environment. The presented model provides theoretical support for combat decision-making in complex battlefield environments with uncertain information. The model employs single-valued neutrosophic sets to handle uncertain data, which enhances the descriptive ability of information. The maximum deviation method is used to calculate attribute weight factors, which highlights the importance of each attribute. The final target threat ranking is obtained based on the relative closeness coefficient of each target. Furthermore, the proposed model constructs a multi-attribute aggregation loss function matrix for each target, sets the risk avoidance coefficient under the knowledge of the battlefield condition, and calculates the decision threshold of each target using three-way decision theory. This method produces the classification of the target choice. The numerical examples and comparison analysis demonstrate that the suggested model can handle ambiguous scenario information effectively and reasonably, transform traditional decision-making ranking results into three-way classification findings, and provide a rationale for choosing an attacking target.

Keywords: Threat assessment, three-way decision, TOPSIS, single-valued neutrosophic

DOI: 10.3233/JIFS-232267

Journal: Journal of Intelligent & Fuzzy Systems, vol. 45, no. 6, pp. 9669-9680, 2023