Interval-valued pythagorean fuzzy power average-based MULTIMOORA method for multi-criteria decision-making. Issue 5 (2nd September 2020)

• Record Type: Journal Article
• Authors: Liang, Decui; Darko, Adjei Peter; Zeng, Ju
• Is Part Of: Journal of experimental & theoretical artificial intelligence. Volume 32:Issue 5(2020)
• Page Start: 845
• Page End: 874
• Publication Date: 2020-09-02
• Subjects: Interval-valued Pythagorean fuzzy sets -- MULITIMOORA -- Power average -- MCDM; Artificial intelligence -- Periodicals; 006.3
• DOI: 10.1080/0952813X.2019.1694589
• Languages: English
• ISSNs: 0952-813X

Abstract

ABSTRACT: In the multi-criteria decision-making (MCDM), multi-objective optimisation by ratio analysis (MOORA) plus the full multiplicative form (MULTIMOORA) are a useful method, which has the flexibility and robustness properties. The aim of this paper is to present a more robust method of MULTIMOORA to solve the MCDM evaluations with interval-valued Pythagorean fuzzy sets (IVPFSs). More specifically, considering the mutual support relationship among the input arguments, we firstly extend the power average (PA) and power geometric (PG) operators to accommodate the interval-valued Pythagorean fuzzy environment. For this, we propose four aggregation operators, including the interval-valued Pythagorean fuzzy power average (IVPFPA), the weighted interval-valued Pythagorean fuzzy power average (WIVPFPA), the interval-valued Pythagorean fuzzy power geometric (IVPFPG) and the weighted interval-valued Pythagorean fuzzy power geometric (WIVPFPG). With the aid of WIVPFPA and WIVPFPG, we further put forward a new robustness of the ranking method, i.e., the interval-valued Pythagorean fuzzy power average-based MULTIMOORA (IVPFPA-MULTIMOORA). Due to the availability and vast diversity among open-source electronic health record (EHR) systems, choosing an appropriate system is a challenge for many health-care institutions under the interval-valued Pythagorean fuzzy environment. Based on these above-mentioned research findings, we successfully utilise the IVPFPA-MULTIMOORA method to solve the selection problem of hospital open-source EHRs systems for MedLab in Ghana. Meanwhile, the effectiveness of the proposed method is verified by some comparative analyses.