scholarly journals A Distinctive Symmetric Analyzation of Improving Air Quality Using Multi-Criteria Decision Making Method under Uncertainty Conditions

Symmetry ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 12 (11) ◽  
pp. 1858
Author(s):  
Samayan Narayanamoorthy ◽  
Arumugam Anuja ◽  
Daekook Kang ◽  
Joseph Varghese Kureethara ◽  
Samayan Kalaiselvan ◽  
...  

This world has a wide range of technologies and possibilities that are available to control air pollution. Still, finding the best solution to control the contamination of the air without having any impact on humans is a complicated task. This proposal helps to improve the air quality using the multi-criteria decision making method. The decision to improve air quality is a challenging problem with today’s technology and environmental development level. The multi-criteria decision making method is quite often faced with conditions of uncertainty, which can be tackled by employing fuzzy set theory. In this paper, based on an objective weighting method (CCSD), we explore the improved fuzzy MULTIMOORA approach. We use the classical Interval-Valued Triangular Fuzzy Numbers (IVTFNs), viz. the symmetric lower and upper triangular numbers, as the basis. The triangular fuzzy number is identified by the triplets; the lowest, the most promising, and the highest possible values, symmetric with respect to the most promising value. When the lower and upper membership functions are equated to one, we get the normalized interval-valued triangular fuzzy numbers, which consist of symmetric intervals. We evaluate five alternatives among the four criteria using an improved MULTIMOORA method and select the best method for improving air quality in Tamil Nadu, India. Finally, a numerical example is illustrated to show the efficiency of the proposed method.

2015 ◽  
Vol 22 (1) ◽  
pp. 122-141 ◽  
Author(s):  
Dragisa STANUJKIC

Decision-making in fuzzy environment is often a very complex, especially when related to predictions and assessments. The Ratio system approach of the MOORA method and Intervalvalued fuzzy numbers have already proved themselves as the effective tools for solving complex decision-making problems. Therefore, in this paper an extension of the Ratio system approach of the MOORA method, which allows a group decision-making as well as the use of interval-valued triangular fuzzy numbers, is proposed. Interval-fuzzy numbers are rather complex, and therefore, they are not practical for direct assigning performance ratings. For this reason, in this paper it has also been suggested the approach which allows the expression of individual performance ratings using crisp, interval or fuzzy numbers, and their further transformation into the group performance ratings, expressed in the form of interval-valued triangular fuzzy numbers, which provide greater flexibility and reality compared to the use of linguistic variables. Finally, in this paper the weighted averaging operator was proposed for defuzzification of interval-valued triangular fuzzy numbers.


2019 ◽  
Vol 11 (18) ◽  
pp. 5057 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ren-Jie Mao ◽  
Jian-Xin You ◽  
Chun-Yan Duan ◽  
Lu-Ning Shao

The third-party platform named ECO system is used by many transnational companies to monitor the sustainability performance of their global suppliers because of its easiness and shareability. Nonetheless, methods used in this platform for evaluating and calculating the sustainability performance of the alternative suppliers are criticized for their lack of accuracy. In response to these problems, this paper presents a heterogeneous multi-criteria decision-making (MCDM) method based on interval-valued intuitionistic fuzzy--an acronym in Portuguese for interactive multi-criteria decision making (IVIF--TODIM) to improve the efficiency of the evaluation model. Considering the varying features of evaluation criteria, i.e., either quantitative or qualitative, the evaluation values under different criteria are expressed in their appropriate information types. In this paper, a general method based on the relative closeness to the technique for order preference by similarity to ideal solution (TOPSIS) method is applied for aggregating the heterogeneous assessment information, including crisp numbers, interval numbers, and triangular fuzzy numbers (TFNs), into interval-valued intuitionistic fuzzy numbers (IVIFNs). Then, the TODIM (an acronym in Portuguese for interactive multi-criteria decision making) is extended and employed to prioritize the alternative suppliers. Finally, the applicability and effectiveness of the proposed method is verified by a practical example of polymer manufacturing company and a comparison analysis with existing methods.


Dependability ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 21 (1) ◽  
pp. 23-33
Author(s):  
Kapil Naithani ◽  
Rajesh Dangwal

Aim. In healthcare field there exist different types of uncertainty due to medical error generated by human and technologies. In general the crisp value generate loss of precision and inaccuracy about result and therefore the available data is not sufficient to assessed clinical process up to desired degree of accuracy. Therefore fuzzy set theory play as an important and advance role in accuracy of results in healthcare related problems. Methods. Here for more accuracy of result, we use functional fuzzy numbers in this paper. This study uses a new fuzzy fault tree analysis for patient safety risk modelling in healthcare. In this paper we will use level (λ, ρ) interval-valued triangular fuzzy number, their functional, t-norm operation and centre of gravity defuzzification method to evaluate fuzzy failure probability and estimate reliability of system. The effectiveness of these methods is illustrated by an example related to healthcare problems and then we analyse the result obtained with the other existing techniques. Tanaka et al.’s approach has been used to give the rank of basic events of the considered problems. Also, we use functional of fuzzy numbers to analyse the change in fuzzy failure probability. Results. The paper examines the application of the failure tree, t-norm and functional fuzzy numbers in the context of interval-valued triangular fuzzy numbers. The research examined two types of healthcare-specific problems and the corresponding defuzzification techniques for the purpose of reliability analysis using the existing methods. The authors concluded that t-norm is not associated with significant accumulation and identified how a functional fuzzy number affects reliability. Similarly, using the V index method, the least critical events were found for each system.


2019 ◽  
Vol 3 (3) ◽  
pp. 01-15
Author(s):  
Adeel Ahmad ◽  
Sana Akram ◽  
Muhammad Farhan Tabassum ◽  
Alia Kausar ◽  
Nousheen Ilyas

This paper advocates Multi-Criteria Decision-Making (MCDM) which evaluates the operation performance of airports using Fuzzy Simple Additive Weighting (FSAW) method. Assigned weights by decision- makers were in a linguistic form. These linguistic forms were converted into triangular fuzzy numbers. We chose three airports designated as A1, A2 and A3 and examined by four decision makers D1, D2, D3 and D4 under a fuzzy environment for performance against the chosen criteria. FSAW method gives similar decision results which shows that this method is effective, relevant and reliable for this kind of MCDM.


Symmetry ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 12 (4) ◽  
pp. 628 ◽  
Author(s):  
Kedong Yin ◽  
Benshuo Yang ◽  
Xue Jin

Considering the characteristics such as fuzziness and greyness in real decision-making, the interval grey triangular fuzzy number is easy to express fuzzy and grey information simultaneously. And the partition Bonferroni mean (PBM) operator has the ability to calculate the interrelationship among the attributes. In this study, we combine the PBM operator into the interval grey triangular fuzzy numbers to increase the applicable scope of PBM operators. First of all, we introduced the definition, properties, expectation, and distance of the interval grey triangular fuzzy numbers, and then we proposed the interval grey triangular fuzzy numbers partitioned Bonferroni mean (IGTFPBM) and the interval grey triangular fuzzy numbers weighted partitioned Bonferroni mean (IGTFWPBM), the adjusting of parameters in the operator can bring symmetry effect to the evaluation results. After that, a novel method based on IGTFWPBM is developed for solving the grey fuzzy multiple attribute group decision-making (GFMAGDM) problems. Finally, we give an example to expound the practicability and superiority of this method.


Informatica ◽  
2021 ◽  
pp. 1-36
Author(s):  
Ayoub Mohammadian ◽  
Jalil Heidary Dahooie ◽  
Ali Reza Qorbani ◽  
Edmundas Kazimieras Zavadskas ◽  
Zenonas Turskis

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