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INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF SYSTEMS SCIENCE
Volume 48, Issue 14, Pages 3072-3086Publisher
TAYLOR & FRANCIS LTD
DOI: 10.1080/00207721.2017.1365968
Keywords
Single-valued trapezoidal neutrosophic number; bounded rationality; outranking method; multi-criteria decision-making; treatment selection
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- National Natural Science Foundation of China [71501192, 71571193]
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Treatment selection is a multi-criteria decision-making problem of significant concern in the medical field. In this study, a fuzzy decision-making framework is established for treatment selection. The framework mitigates information loss by introducing single-valued trapezoidal neutrosophic numbers to denote evaluation information. Treatment selection has multiple criteria that remarkably exceed the alternatives. In consideration of this characteristic, the framework utilises the idea of the qualitative flexible multiple criteria method. Furthermore, it considers the risk-averse behaviour of a decision maker by employing a concordance index based on TODIM (an acronym in Portuguese of interactive and multi-criteria decision-making) method. A sensitivity analysis is performed to illustrate the robustness of the framework. Finally, a comparative analysis is conducted to compare the framework with several extant methods. Results indicate the advantages of the framework and its better performance compared with the extant methods.
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