TODIM strategy for multi-attribute group decision making in trapezoidal neutrosophic number environment

Abstract

Many multi-attribute group decision-making (MAGDM) strategies have been introduced in the literature to deal with decision-making problems in uncertain environment. Many of them are based on fuzzy numbers and they are not able to cope with indeterminacy and inconsistency involving in decision making. In recent years, some neutrosophic multi-attribute group decision-making strategies have been successfully developed to deal with uncertainty, indeterminacy, and inconsistency in decision making. Among them, TODIM (an acronym in Portuguese of interactive and multiple attribute decision making) strategy based on prospect theory has received more attention due to its great performance in considering the bounded rationality of decision makers. In this paper, we develop a TODIM strategy to deal with multi-attribute group decision-making problem in trapezoidal neutrosophic numbers environment. To establish the TODIM strategy, we employ score function, accuracy function, and Hamming distance function for trapezoidal neutrosophic numbers. Lastly, we solve an illustrative numerical example to show the applicability and usefulness of the proposed strategy. A comparison analysis is also provided.