INTUITIONISTIC UNCERTAIN LINGUISTIC WEIGHTED BONFERRONI OWA OPERATOR AND ITS APPLICATION TO MULTIPLE ATTRIBUTE DECISION MAKING

With respect to multiple attribute decision making (MADM) problems, a new decision-making method based on the intuitionistic uncertain linguistic weighted Bonferroni OWA operator is developed and some properties of the IULBOWA and IULWBOWA operators are discussed.

Abstract

Abstract With respect to multiple attribute decision making (MADM) problems, in which attribute values take the form of intuitionistic uncertain linguistic information, a new decision-making method based on the intuitionistic uncertain linguistic weighted Bonferroni OWA operator is developed. First, the score function, accuracy function, and comparative method of the intuitionistic uncertain linguistic numbers are introduced. Then, an intuitionistic uncertain linguistic Bonferroni OWA (IULBOWA) operator and an intuitionistic uncertain linguistic weighted Bonferroni OWA (IULWBOWA) operator are developed. Furthermore, some properties of the IULBOWA and IULWBOWA operators, such as commutativity, idempotency, monotonicity, and boundedness, are discussed. At the same time, some special cases of these operators are analyzed. Based on the IULWBOWA operator, the multiple attribute decision-making method with intuitionistic uncertain linguistic information is proposed. Finally, an illustrative example is given to illustrate the decision-making steps and to demonstrate its practicality and effectiveness. KEYWORDS: intuitionistic uncertain linguistic Bonferroni OWA (IULBOWA) operatorintuitionistic uncertain linguistic variablesintuitionistic uncertain linguistic weighted Bonferroni OWA (IULWBOWA) operatormultiple attribute decision making