Linguistic Neutrosophic Cubic Numbers and Their Multiple Attribute Decision-Making Method

• Main Author: Jun Ye
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Published: MDPI AG 2017-09-01
• Series: Information
• Subjects: linguistic neutrosophic cubic number; score function; accuracy function; certain function; linguistic neutrosophic cubic number weighted arithmetic averaging (LNCNWAA) operator; linguistic neutrosophic cubic number weighted geometric averaging (LNCNWGA) operator; decision-making
• Online Access: https://www.mdpi.com/2078-2489/8/3/110

To describe both certain linguistic neutrosophic information and uncertain linguistic neutrosophic information simultaneously in the real world, this paper originally proposes the concept of a linguistic neutrosophic cubic number (LNCN), including an internal LNCN and external LNCN. In LNCN, its uncertain linguistic neutrosophic number consists of the truth, indeterminacy, and falsity uncertain linguistic variables, and its linguistic neutrosophic number consists of the truth, indeterminacy, and falsity linguistic variables to express their hybrid information. Then, we present the operational laws of LNCNs and the score, accuracy, and certain functions of LNCN for comparing/ranking LNCNs. Next, we propose a LNCN weighted arithmetic averaging (LNCNWAA) operator and a LNCN weighted geometric averaging (LNCNWGA) operator to aggregate linguistic neutrosophic cubic information and discuss their properties. Further, a multiple attribute decision-making method based on the LNCNWAA or LNCNWGA operator is developed under a linguistic neutrosophic cubic environment. Finally, an illustrative example is provided to indicate the application of the developed method.