A Multicriteria Group Decision-Making Method Based on the Normal Cloud Model With Zadeh's Z -Numbers

• Published in: IEEE transactions on fuzzy systems Vol. 26; no. 6; pp. 3246 - 3260
• Main Authors: Peng, Hong-Gang, Wang, Jian-Qiang
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: New York IEEE 01.12.2018; The Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, Inc. (IEEE)
• Subjects: <named-content xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink" xmlns:ali="http://www.niso.org/schemas/ali/1.0/" xmlns:mml="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" content-type="math" xlink:type="simple"> <inline-formula> <tex-math notation="LaTeX"> Z</tex-math> </inline-formula> </named-content>-numbers; Agglomeration; Analytical models; Clouds; Decision making; Distance measurement; Feasibility studies; Multicriteria group decision-making (MCGDM); multiobjective optimization by ratio analysis plus the full multiplicative form (MULTIMOORA); Multiple criterion; Multiple objective analysis; normal cloud model; Operators; Optimization; power aggregation operator; Pragmatics; Reliability; Sensitivity analysis; Uncertainty; Weight

Z -number is the general representation of real-life information with reliability, and it has adequate description power from the point of view of human perception. This study develops an innovative method for addressing multicriteria group decision-making (MCGDM) problems with Z -numbers under the...