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Multi-valued picture fuzzy soft sets and their applications in group decision-making problems

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Soft set theory initiated by Molodtsov in 1999 has been emerging as a generic mathematical tool for dealing with uncertainty. A noticeable progress is found concerning the practical use of soft set in decision-making problems. The purpose of this manuscript is to explore the novel of multi-valued picture fuzzy set (MPFS) and multi-valued picture fuzzy soft set (MPFSS) which are the generalizations of the notions of picture fuzzy soft set (PFSS) and multi-fuzzy soft set (MFSS). This notion can be used to express fuzzy information in more general and effective way. In particular, some basic operations such as union, intersection, complement and product of the proposed MPFSS are developed, and their properties are investigated. Furthermore, some aggregation operators corresponding to the proposed MPFSSs are called multi-picture fuzzy soft weighted averaging, multi-picture fuzzy soft ordered weighted averaging and multi-picture soft hybrid weighted averaging operators for a collections of MPFSSs are also developed. Moreover, based on these operators, we presented a new method to deal with the multi‐attribute group decision-making problems under the multi-valued picture fuzzy soft environment. Finally, we used some practical examples to illustrate the validity and superiority of the proposed method by comparing with other existing methods. The graphical interpretation of the explored approaches is also utilized with future directions.

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  1. Department of Mathematics and Statistic, International Islamic University Islamabad, Islamabad, Pakistan

    Naeem Jan, Tahir Mahmood & Zeeshan Ali

  2. Department of Data Analysis and Mathematical Modeling, Faculty of Bioscience Engineering, Ghent University, Ghent, Belgium

    Naeem Jan

  3. Laboratory of Pure and Applied Mathematics, Department of Mathematics, Med Boudiaf University of Msila, P. O. Box 166, 28000, Ichbilia, Msila, Algeria

    Lemnaouar Zedam

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Jan, N., Mahmood, T., Zedam, L. et al. Multi-valued picture fuzzy soft sets and their applications in group decision-making problems. Soft Comput 24, 18857–18879 (2020). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00500-020-05116-y

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