Intuitionistic multiplicative aggregation operators with their application in group decision making

Article type: Research Article

Authors: Yu, Dejian | Fang, Lincong

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

Note: [] Corresponding author. Dejian Yu, School of Information, Zhejiang University of Finance and Economics, Hangzhou 310018, China. E-mail: [email protected]

Abstract: Today, preference relations are among the most common types of expressing decision maker's preference information found in uncertainty research. Intuitionistic multiplicative preference relation can reflect our intuition more objectively and it was proposed by Xia et al. [20] recently. In this article, we first develop some aggregation operators for intuitionistic multiplicative numbers, such as the intuitionistic multiplicative weighted averaging operator and intuitionistic multiplicative ordered weighted averaging operator. Their desirable properties are also investigated in detail. Furthermore, based on the proposed aggregation operators, we further introduce a group decision making method based on intuitionistic multiplicative preference relations. Finally, a real example about personnel selection is given to illustrate the effectiveness of our method, the numeric comparison between our group decision making method and the ones of Xia et al. [20] are also provided.

Keywords: Intuitionistic multiplicative preference relation, aggregation operator, group decision making

DOI: 10.3233/IFS-130984

Journal: Journal of Intelligent & Fuzzy Systems, vol. 27, no. 1, pp. 131-142, 2014