Title
Multi-Criteria Pythagorean Fuzzy Group Decision Approach Based on Social Network Analysis
Abstract
With the development of social media, the social relationships among group decision makers should be taken into consideration when addressing group decision making problems. As an extension of the fuzzy set, the Pythagorean fuzzy set has recently been applied to depict the uncertainty in practical group decision problems. The purpose of this paper is to propose a multi-criteria Pythagorean fuzzy group decision approach considering social relations. In this paper, the similarity degree and the paths between any two experts in a social network are combined to construct a connection strength matrix to detect the leader among all the experts. A leader-following consensus reaching algorithm is proposed to adjust the multi-criteria Pythagorean fuzzy decision making matrix. Moreover, a procedure for the multi-criteria Pythagorean fuzzy group decision approach based on social network analysis is proposed. We use an example to illustrate the feasibility and advantages of the proposed method.
Year
DOI
Venue
2020
10.3390/sym12020255
SYMMETRY-BASEL
Keywords
DocType
Volume
Pythagorean fuzzy,social network analysis,consensus,multi-criteria group decision making
Journal
12
Issue
Citations 
PageRank 
2
0
0.34
References 
Authors
0
3
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Yanyan Wang100.34
Junfeng Chu200.34
Yicong Liu300.34