Development of Aczel-Alsina t-norm based linear Diophantine fuzzy aggregation operators and their applications in multi-criteria decision-making with unknown weight information.

ABSTRACT

Aczel-Alsina t-norm and t-conorm are intrinsically flexible and endow Aczel-Alsina aggregation operators with greater versatility and robustness in the aggregation process than operators rooted in other t-norms and t-conorm families. Moreover, the linear Diophantine fuzzy set (LD-FS) is one of the resilient extensions of the fuzzy sets (FSs), intuitionistic fuzzy sets (IFSs), Pythagorean fuzzy sets (PyFSs), and q-rung orthopair fuzzy sets (q-ROFSs), which has acquired prominence in decision analysis due to its exceptional efficacy in resolving ambiguous data. Keeping in view the advantages of both LD-FSs and Aczel-Alsina aggregation operators, this article aims to establish Aczel-Alsina operation rules for LD-FSs, such as Aczel-Alsina sum, Aczel-Alsina product, Aczel-Alsina scalar multiplication, and Aczel-Alsina exponentiation. Based on these operation rules, we expose the linear Diophantine fuzzy Aczel-Alsina weighted average (LDFAAWA) operator, and linear Diophantine fuzzy Aczel-Alsina weighted geometric (LDFAAWG) operator and scrutinize their distinctive characteristics and results. Additionally, based on these aggregation operators (AOs), a multi-criteria decision-making (MCDM) approach is designed and tested with a practical case study related to forecasting weather under an LD-FS setting. The developed model undergoes a comparative analysis with several prevailing approaches to demonstrate the superiority and accuracy of the proposed model. Besides, the influence of the parameter Λ on the ranking order is successfully highlighted.