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Power Aggregation Operators and Similarity Measures Based on Improved Intuitionistic Hesitant Fuzzy Sets and their Applications to Multiple Attribute Decision Making

Tahir Mahmood¹, Wajid Ali¹, Zeeshan Ali¹, Ronnason Chinram^2,*

1 Department of Mathematics and Statistics, International Islamic University, Islamabad, Pakistan
2 Algebra and Applications Research Unit, Division of Computational Science, Faculty of Science, Prince of Songkla University, Hat Yai, Songkhla, Thailand

* Corresponding Author: Ronnason Chinram. Email:

(This article belongs to this Special Issue: Intelligent Computing for Engineering Applications)

Computer Modeling in Engineering & Sciences 2021, 126(3), 1165-1187. https://doi.org/10.32604/cmes.2021.014393

Received 23 September 2020; Accepted 11 November 2020; Issue published 19 February 2021

Abstract

Intuitionistic hesitant fuzzy set (IHFS) is a mixture of two separated notions called intuitionistic fuzzy set (IFS) and hesitant fuzzy set (HFS), as an important technique to cope with uncertain and awkward information in realistic decision issues. IHFS contains the grades of truth and falsity in the form of the subset of the unit interval. The notion of IHFS was defined by many scholars with different conditions, which contain several weaknesses. Here, keeping in view the problems of already defined IHFSs, we will define IHFS in another way so that it becomes compatible with other existing notions. To examine the interrelationship between any numbers of IHFSs, we combined the notions of power averaging (PA) operators and power geometric (PG) operators with IHFSs to present the idea of intuitionistic hesitant fuzzy PA (IHFPA) operators, intuitionistic hesitant fuzzy PG (IHFPG) operators, intuitionistic hesitant fuzzy power weighted average (IHFPWA) operators, intuitionistic hesitant fuzzy power ordered weighted average (IHFPOWA) operators, intuitionistic hesitant fuzzy power ordered weighted geometric (IHFPOWG) operators, intuitionistic hesitant fuzzy power hybrid average (IHFPHA) operators, intuitionistic hesitant fuzzy power hybrid geometric (IHFPHG) operators and examined as well their fundamental properties. Some special cases of the explored work are also discovered. Additionally, the similarity measures based on IHFSs are presented and their advantages are discussed along examples. Furthermore, we initiated a new approach to multiple attribute decision making (MADM) problem applying suggested operators and a mathematical model is solved to develop an approach and to establish its common sense and adequacy. Advantages, comparative analysis, and graphical representation of the presented work are elaborated to show the reliability and effectiveness of the presented works.

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