Group Decision-Making with Distance Induced Fuzzy Operators.

The aggregation of fuzzy information is a key process of MCDM methods used to deal with uncertainties. A class of aggregation methods for fuzzy information is fuzzy distance aggregation operators in which distance values are argument variables. This class of aggregation operators permits us to consider an ideal alternative in the aggregation process. But these operators fall in dealing with situations among which distance values cannot be aggregated directly. Therefore, we proposed some distance induced fuzzy operators in which distance values are order-inducing variables so that we can also consider an ideal alternative but take other parameters, also including distance values, as argument variables in an aggregation process. We analyzed the concepts, properties, and generalized forms of proposed distance induced fuzzy operators in this paper. Moreover, aiming at multi-criteria group decision-making (MCGDM), three frameworks of MCGDM methods with the proposed distance induced fuzzy operators are constructed for three different MCGDM situations, respectively. At the end of this paper, an example is used to explain the detailed processes of using the proposed frameworks to make a decision. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]