An integrated dynamic intuitionistic fuzzy MADM approach for personnel promotion problem

Kybernetes ◽  
2015 ◽  
Vol 44 (10) ◽  
pp. 1422-1436 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ozkan Bali ◽  
Metin Dagdeviren ◽  
Serkan Gumus

Purpose – One of the key success factors for an organization is the promotion of qualified personnel for vacant positions. Especially, the promotion of middle and senior managers play an important role in terms of organization’s success. In personnel promotion problem in which the candidates are nominated within the organization and they have been working for a specific period of time and are known in their organization, the candidates should be evaluated based on their recent as well as past performances to make right selection for the vacant position. For this reason, the purpose of this paper is to propose an integrated dynamic multi-attribute decision-making (MADM) model based on intuitionistic fuzzy set for solving personnel promotion problem. Design/methodology/approach – The proposed model integrates analytic hierarchy process (AHP) technique and the dynamic evaluation by intuitionistic fuzzy operator for personnel promotion. AHP is employed to determine the weight of attributes based on decision maker’s opinions, and the dynamic operator is utilized to aggregate evaluations of candidates for different years. Atanassov’s intuitionistic fuzzy set theory is utilized to represent uncertainty and vagueness in MADM process. Findings – A numerical example is presented to show the applicability of the proposed method for personnel promotion problem and a sensitivity analysis is conducted to demonstrate efficiency of dynamic evaluation. The findings indicate that the varying weights of years employed determined the best candidate for promotion. Originality/value – The novelty of this study is defining personnel promotion as a MADM problem in the literature for the first time and proposing an integrated dynamic intuitionistic fuzzy MADM approach for the solution, in which the candidates are evaluated at different years.

2021 ◽  
Vol ahead-of-print (ahead-of-print) ◽  
Author(s):  
Mustafa Said Yurtyapan ◽  
Erdal Aydemir

PurposeEnterprise Resource Planning (ERP) software which is a knowledge-based design on the interconnective communication of business units and information share, ensures that business processes such as finance, production, purchasing, sales, logistics and human resources, are integrated and gathered under one roof. This integrated system allows the company to make fast and accurate decisions and increases its competitiveness. Therefore, for an enterprise, choosing the suitable ERP software is extremely important. The aim of this study is to present new research on the ERP software selection process by clarifying the uncertainties and find suitable software in a computational way.Design/methodology/approachERP selection problem design includes uncertainties on the expert opinions and the criteria values using intuitionistic fuzzy set theory and interval grey-numbers to MACBETH multi criteria decision making method. In this paper, a new interval grey MACBETH method approach is proposed, and the degree of greyness approach is used for clarifying the uncertainties. Using this new approach in which grey numbers are used, it is aimed to observe the changes in the importance of the alternatives. Moreover, the intuitionistic fuzzy set method is applied by considering the importance of expert opinions separately.FindingsThe proposed method is based on quantitative decision making derived from qualitative judgments. The results given under uncertain conditions are compared with the results obtained under crisp conditions of the same methods. With the qualitative levels of experts reflected in the decision process, it is clearly seen that ERP software selection problem area has more effective alternative decision solutions to the uncertain environment, and decision makers should not undervalue the unsteadiness of criteria during ERP software selection process.Originality/valueThis study contributes to the relevant literature by (1) utilizing the MACBETH method in the selection of the ERP software by optimization, and (2) validating the importance of expert opinions with uncertainties on a proper ERP software selection procedure. So, the findings of this study can help the decision-makers to evaluate the ERP selection in uncertain conditions.


2019 ◽  
Vol 23 (4) ◽  
pp. 329-340
Author(s):  
Akshay Hinduja ◽  
Manju Pandey

The notion of multi-criteria decision-making is regarded as the process of finding the best possible alternative or course of action by decision-makers. Often, it entails handling vague, incomplete and inconsistent information. The intuitionistic fuzzy set (IFS) has been proven more effective than a fuzzy set in handling vagueness and uncertainty. The aim of the article is to incorporate the effectiveness of the IFS with the powerfulness of the analytic hierarchy process (AHP) and develop intuitionistic fuzzy AHP (IF-AHP) to cope with the decision problems involving imprecise and hesitant information. In this article, we develop a distance-based novel priority method, which derives unambiguous non-fuzzy priorities of the alternatives from intuitionistic fuzzy preference relations (IFPRs). The proposed priority method is simple in computation yet effective in results. To validate the method, we applied it to the adapted supplier selection problem. This article also presents a comparison of the proposed method with classic and fuzzy AHP using Monte-Carlo simulation approach.


2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Yijin Zhang ◽  
Jie Huang ◽  
Zongbing Lin

Abstract For emergencies, the reliability of information can not be guaranteed. At the same time, due to the lack of information and knowledge, neither the criteria itself nor the credibility can be given a precise evaluation by decision-makers(DMs). Therefore, we combine intuitionistic fuzzy set and Z-number to get a new class of fuzzy set, complete Z-intuitionistic fuzzy set(CZIFS), and its degenerate form, A-type Z-intuitionistic fuzzy set(AZIFS) and B-type Z-intuitionistic fuzzy set(BZIFS). CZIFS can serve as a reliable tool to depict the hesitant degree both on the ambiguity and reliability of uncertain information. In addition, we introduce the score and accuracy functions and distance measure of complete Z-intuitionistic fuzzy number(CZIFN), with which we have considered both reliability information and DMs' preference on it. Then, we improve traditional MULTIMOORA by developing reference point(RP) model to consider both the risk and profile of alternatives and integrating analytic hierarchy process(AHP) in the process of ranking aggregation method to take into account the preference of DMs on three subordinate rankings. Besides, to solve multicriteria group decision making(MCGDM) problem, we develop improved MULTIMOORA method to the environment of CZIFN. Finally, to illustrate the proposed method, we give a numerical example, solving site selecting of Fangcang shelter hospital for COVID-19.


2021 ◽  
Vol 25 (4) ◽  
pp. 949-972
Author(s):  
Nannan Zhang ◽  
Xixi Yao ◽  
Chao Luo

Fuzzy cognitive maps (FCMs) have widely been applied for knowledge representation and reasoning. However, in real life, reasoning is always accompanied with hesitation, which is deriving from the uncertainty and fuzziness. Especially, when processing the online data, since the internal and external interference, the distribution and characteristics of sequence data would be considerably changed along with the passage of time, which further increase the difficulty of modeling. In this article, based on intuitionistic fuzzy set theory, a new dynamic intuitionistic fuzzy cognitive map (DIFCM) scheme is proposed for online data prediction. Combined with a novel detection algorithm of concept drift, the structure of DIFCM can be adaptively updated with the online learning scheme, which can effectively improve the representation of online information by capturing the real-time changes of sequence data. Moreover, in order to tackle with the possible hesitancy in the process of modeling, intuitionistic fuzzy set is applied in the construction of dynamic FCM, where hesitation degree as a quantitative index explicitly expresses the hesitancy. Finally, a series of experiments using public data sets verify the effectiveness of the proposed method.


2021 ◽  
pp. 1-22
Author(s):  
Riaz Ali ◽  
Saleem Abdullah ◽  
Shakoor Muhammad ◽  
Muhammad Naeem ◽  
Ronnason Chinram

Due to the indeterminacy and uncertainty of the decision-makers (DM) in the complex decision making problems of daily life, evaluation and aggregation of the information usually becomes a complicated task. In literature many theories and fuzzy sets (FS) are presented for the evaluation of these decision tasks, but most of these theories and fuzzy sets have failed to explain the uncertainty and vagueness in the decision making issues. Therefore, we use complex intuitionistic fuzzy set (CIFS) instead of fuzzy set and intuitionistic fuzzy set (IFS). A new type of aggregation operation is also developed by the use of complex intuitionistic fuzzy numbers (CIFNs), their accuracy and the score functions are also discussed in detail. Moreover, we utilized the Maclaurin symmetric mean (MSM) operator, which have the ability to capture the relationship among multi-input arguments, as a result, CIF Maclarurin symmetric mean (CIFMSM) operator and CIF dual Maclaurin symmetric mean (CIFDMSM) operator are presented and their characteristics are discussed in detail. On the basis of these operators, a MAGDM method is presented for the solution of group decision making problems. Finally, the validation of the propounded approach is proved by evaluating a numerical example, and by the comparison with the previously researched results.


Author(s):  
J. Siva Ranjini ◽  
V. Mahalakshmi

The theory of Intuitionistic fuzzy set is the extension of the fuzzy set that deals with truth and false membership data. We will discuss along with some fundamentals and their algebraic Properties. The results obtained are entirely more beneficial to the researchers. We also expand the Complement of the Set and Homomorphism. The motivation of the present manuscript is to extend the concept of Intuitionistic fuzzy X-subalgebra in near-subtraction semigroups.


2021 ◽  
Vol 10 (3) ◽  
pp. 1-17
Author(s):  
Debabrata Mandal

The classical set theory was extended by the theory of fuzzy set and its several generalizations, for example, intuitionistic fuzzy set, interval valued fuzzy set, cubic set, hesitant fuzzy set, soft set, neutrosophic set, etc. In this paper, the author has combined the concepts of intuitionistic fuzzy set and hesitant fuzzy set to study the ideal theory of semirings. After the introduction and the priliminary of the paper, in Section 3, the author has defined hesitant intuitionistic fuzzy ideals and studied several properities of it using the basic operations intersection, homomorphism and cartesian product. In Section 4, the author has also defined hesitant intuitionistic fuzzy bi-ideals and hesitant intuitionistic fuzzy quasi-ideals of a semiring and used these to find some characterizations of regular semiring. In that section, the author also has discussed some inter-relations between hesitant intuitionistic fuzzy ideals, hesitant intuitionistic fuzzy bi-ideals and hesitant intuitionistic fuzzy quasi-ideals, and obtained some of their related properties.


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