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Some two-dimensional uncertain linguistic Heronian mean operators and their application in multiple-attribute decision making

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Heronian mean (HM) is an important aggregation operator which has the characteristic of capturing the correlations of the aggregated arguments. In this paper, we first analyze the shortcomings of the existing weighted HM operators which do not feature reducibility and idempotency, and then, we propose the new weighted generalized Heronian mean operator and weighted generalized geometric Heronian mean operator, and prove that they can satisfy some desirable properties, such as reducibility, idempotency, monotonicity, and boundedness, and discuss some special cases of these operators. Further, because two-dimensional uncertain linguistic information can easily express the fuzzy information, we propose two-dimensional uncertain linguistic weighted generalized Heronian mean (2DULWGHM) operator and the two-dimensional uncertain linguistic weighted generalized geometric Heronian mean (2DULWGGHM) operator, and some desirable properties and special cases of 2DULWGHM and 2DULWGGHM operators are discussed. Moreover, for multiple-attribute decision-making problems in which attribute values take the form of two-dimensional uncertain linguistic variables, some approaches based on the developed operators are proposed. Finally, we gave an illustrative example to explain the steps of the developed methods and to discuss the influence of different parameters on the decision-making results.

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This paper is supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (Nos. 71471172, 71271124), the Humanities and Social Sciences Research Project of Ministry of Education of China (Nos. 13YJC630104 and 09YJA630088), Shandong Provincial Social Science Planning Project (No. 13BGLJ10), and the Fundamental Research Funds for the Central Universities (No. 3122013E004). The author also would like to express appreciation to the anonymous reviewers for their very helpful comments that improved the paper.

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    Peide Liu

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Chu, Y., Liu, P. Some two-dimensional uncertain linguistic Heronian mean operators and their application in multiple-attribute decision making. Neural Comput & Applic 26, 1461–1480 (2015). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00521-014-1813-8

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