The uncertain probabilistic OWA distance operator and its application in group decision making
Applied Mathematical ModellingPublished 21 January 2013
Shouzhen Zeng, José M. Merigó, Weihua Su
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The uncertain probabilistic ordered weighted averaging distance (UPOWAD) operator is presented, which uses distance measures in a unified framework between the probability and the OWA operator that considers the degree of importance of each concept in the aggregation.
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In this paper, we present the uncertain probabilistic ordered weighted averaging distance (UPOWAD) operator. Its main advantage is that it uses distance measures in a unified framework between the probability and the OWA operator that considers the degree of importance of each concept in the aggregation. Moreover, it is able to deal with uncertain environments represented in the form of interval numbers. We study some of its main properties and particular cases such as the uncertain probabilistic distance (UPD) and the uncertain OWA distance (UOWAD) operator. We end the paper by presenting an application to a group decision making problem regarding the selection of robots.
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