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Dual hesitant fuzzy group decision making method and its application to supplier selection

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The concept of dual hesitant fuzzy set arising from hesitant fuzzy set is generalized by including a function reflecting the decision maker’s fuzziness about the non-membership degree of the information provided. This paper studies some dual hesitant fuzzy information aggregation operators for aggregating dual hesitant fuzzy elements, such as dual hesitant fuzzy Heronian mean operator and dual hesitant fuzzy geometric Heronian mean operator. The research resulting dual hesitant fuzzy information aggregation operators finds an important role in group decision making (GDM) applications. It can fusion the experts’ opinion to the comprehensive ones and based on which an optimal decision making scheme can be determined. The properties of the proposed operators are studied and the application on GDM are investigated. The effectiveness of the GDM method is demonstrated on the case study about supplier selection.

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Acknowledgments

The authors wish to thank the anonymous reviewers and Editor-in-Chief for their constructive comments on this study. This work has been supported by China National Natural Science Foundation (No. 71301142), Zhejiang Science & Technology Plan of China (2015C33024), Zhejiang Provincial Natural Science Foundation of China (No. LQ13G010004), Project Funded by China Postdoctoral Science Foundation (No. 2014M550353) and the National Education Information Technology Research (No. 146242069).

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  1. School of Economics and Management, Fuzhou University, Fuzhou, 350108, Fujian, China

    Dejian Yu & Deng-Feng Li

  2. School of Information, Zhejiang University of Finance and Economics, Hangzhou, 310018, Zhejiang, China

    Dejian Yu

  3. Manchester Business School, University of Manchester, Booth Street West, Manchester, M15 6PB, UK

    José M. Merigó

  4. Department of Management Control and Information Systems, University of Chile, Av. Diagonal Paraguay 257, 8330015, Santiago, Chile

    José M. Merigó

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Yu, D., Li, DF. & Merigó, J.M. Dual hesitant fuzzy group decision making method and its application to supplier selection. Int. J. Mach. Learn. & Cyber. 7, 819–831 (2016). https://doi.org/10.1007/s13042-015-0400-3

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