An integrated neutrosophic ANP and VIKOR method for achieving sustainable supplier selection: A case study in importing field

Neutrosophic set, initiated by Smarandache, is a novel tool to deal with vagueness considering the truth-membership T, indeterminacy-membership I and falsity-membership F satisfying the condition $$0\le T+I+F\le 3$$. It can be used to characterize the uncertain information more sufficiently and accurately than intuitionistic fuzzy set. Neutrosophic set has attracted great attention of many scholars that have been extended to new types and these extensions have been used in many areas such as aggregation operators, decision making, image processing, information measures, graph and algebraic structures. Because of such a growth, we present an overview on neutrosophic set with the aim of offering a clear perspective on the different concepts, tools and trends related to their extensions. A total of 137 neutrosophic set publication records from Web of Science are analyzed. Many interesting results with regard to the annual trends, the top players in terms of country level as well as institutional level, the publishing journals, the highly cited papers, and the research landscape are yielded and explained in-depth. The results indicate that some developing economics (such as China, India, Turkey) are quite active in neutrosophic set research. Moreover, the co-authorship analysis of the country and institution, the co-citation analysis of the journal, reference and author, and the co-occurrence analysis of the keywords are presented by VOSviewer software.

A bibliometric analysis of neutrosophic set: two decades review from 1998 to 2017

This paper investigates a wide range of generalized Maclaurin symmetric mean (MSM) aggregation operators, such as the generalized arithmetic MSM and the generalized geometric MSM, whose predominant characteristic is capturing the interrelationships among multi-input arguments. The single-valued neutrosophic linguistic set plays an essential role in decision making, which can serve as an extension of either a linguistic term set or a single-valued neutrosophic set. This study centers on multi-criteria decision-making (MCDM) issues in which criteria are weighed differently and criteria values are expressed as single-valued neutrosophic linguistic numbers. Based on this foundation, we extend a series of MSM aggregation techniques under single-valued neutrosophic linguistic environments and propose procedures for solving MCDM problems. We also explore the influence of parameters on aggregation results. Finally, we provide a practical example and conduct a comparison analysis between the proposed approach and other existing methods in order to verify the proposed approach and demonstrate its validity.

Multi-criteria decision-making method based on single-valued neutrosophic linguistic Maclaurin symmetric mean operators

The most widely used technique for solving and optimizing a real-life problem is linear programming (LP), due to its simplicity and efficiency. However, in order to handle the impreciseness in the data, the neutrosophic set theory plays a vital role which makes a simulation of the decision-making process of humans by considering all aspects of decision (i.e., agree, not sure and disagree). By keeping the advantages of it, in the present work, we have introduced the neutrosophic LP models where their parameters are represented with a trapezoidal neutrosophic numbers and presented a technique for solving them. The presented approach has been illustrated with some numerical examples and shows their superiority with the state of the art by comparison. Finally, we conclude that proposed approach is simpler, efficient and capable of solving the LP models as compared to other methods.

A novel method for solving the fully neutrosophic linear programming problems

Every organization seeks to set strategies for its development and growth and to do this, it must take into account the factors that affect its success or failure. The most widely used technique in strategic planning is SWOT analysis. SWOT examines strengths (S), weaknesses (W),opportunities (O) and threats (T), to select and implement the best strategy to achieve organizational goals.

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An Extension of Neutrosophic AHP–SWOT Analysis for Strategic Planning and Decision-Making

The concept of a single valued neutrosophic number (SVN-number) is of importance for quantifying an ill-known quantity and the ranking of SVN-numbers is a very difficult problem in multi-attribute decision making problems. The aim of this paper is to present a methodology for solving multi-attribute decision making problems with SVN-numbers. Therefore, we firstly defined the concepts of cut sets of SVN-numbers and then applied to single valued trapezoidal neutrosophic numbers (SVTN-numbers) and triangular neutrosophic numbers (SVTrN-numbers). Then, we proposed the values and ambiguities of the truth-membership function, indeterminacy-membership function and falsity-membership function for a SVN-numbers and studied some desired properties. Also, we developed a ranking method by using the concept of values and ambiguities, and applied to multi-attribute decision making problems in which the ratings of alternatives on attributes are expressed with SVTN-numbers.

A ranking method of single valued neutrosophic numbers and its applications to multi-attribute decision making problems

The single valued triangular neutrosophic number (SVTrN-number) is simply an ordinary number whose precise value is somewhat uncertain from a philosophical point of view, which is a generalization of triangular fuzzy numbers and triangular intuitionistic fuzzy numbers. Also, SVTrN-number may express more abundant and flexible information as compared with the triangular fuzzy numbers and triangular intuitionistic fuzzy numbers. This article introduces an approach to handle multi-criteria decision making (MCDM) problems under the SVTrN-numbers. Therefore, we first proposed some new geometric operator is called SVTrN weighted geometric operator, SVTrN ordered weighted geometric operator, SVTrN ordered hybrid weighted geometric operator. Also we studied some desirable properties of the geometric operators. And then, an approach based on the SVTrN ordered hybrid weighted geometric operator is developed to solve multi-criteria decision making problems with SVTrN-number. Finally, a numerical example is used to demonstrate how to apply the proposed approach. Keyword 0.1 Neutrosophic set, single valued neutrosophic numbers, triangular neutrosophic numbers, geometric operators, decision making.

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Some weighted geometric operators with SVTrN-numbers and their application to multi-criteria decision making problems

The single valued triangular neutrosophic number (SVTrN-number) is simply an ordinary number whose precise value is somewhat uncertain from a philosophical point of view, which is a generalization of triangular fuzzy numbers and triangular intuitionistic fuzzy numbers.

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Some Weighted Geometric Operators with SVTrN-Numbers and Their Application to Multi-Criteria Decision Making Problems

In this paper, we firstly introduced single valued neutrosophic numbers which is a generalization of fuzzy numbers and intuitionistic fuzzy numbers. A single valued neutrosophic number is simply an ordinary number whose precise value is somewhat uncertain from a philosophical point of view. Then, we will discuss two special forms of single valued neutrosophic numbers such as single valued trapezoidal neutrosophic numbers and single valued triangular neutrosophic numbers. Also, we give some operations on single valued trapezoidal neutrosophic numbers and single valued triangular neutrosophic numbers. Finally, we give a single valued trapezoidal neutrosophic weighted aggregation operator(SVTNWAO) and applied to multicriteria decision making problem. Keyword 0.1 Neutrosophic set, single valued neutrosophic numbers, trapezoidal neutrosophic numbers, triangular neutrosophic numbers, aggregation operators, decision making.

Single Valued Neutrosophic Numbers and Their Applications to Multicriteria Decision Making Problem

Interval valued bipolar neutrosophic set(IVBN-set) is a new generalization of fuzzy set, bipolar fuzzy set, neutrosophic set and bipolar neutrosophic set so that it can handle uncertain information more flexibly in the process of decision making.

Yusuf Subas

Papers

A ranking method of single valued neutrosophic numbers and its applications to multi-attribute decision making problems

Some weighted geometric operators with SVTrN-numbers and their application to multi-criteria decision making problems

Some Weighted Geometric Operators with SVTrN-Numbers and Their Application to Multi-Criteria Decision Making Problems

Single Valued Neutrosophic Numbers and Their Applications to Multicriteria Decision Making Problem

Interval Valued Bipolar Neutrosophic Sets and Their Application in Pattern Recognition