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A Monotonous Intuitionistic Fuzzy TOPSIS Method under General Linear Orders via Admissible Distance Measures

Xinxing Wu·Zhiyi Zhu·Chuan Chen·Guanrong Chen·Peide Liu
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All intuitionistic fuzzy TOPSIS methods contain two key elements: (1) the order structure, which can affect the choices of positive ideal-points and negative ideal-points, and construction of admissible distance/similarity measures; (2) the distance/similarity measure, which is closely related to the values of the relative closeness degrees and determines the accuracy and rationality of decision-making. For the order structure, many efforts are devoted to constructing some score functions, which can strictly distinguish different intuitionistic fuzzy values (IFVs) and preserve the natural partial order for IFVs.This paper proves that such a score function does not exist, namely the application of a single monotonous and continuous function does not distinguish all IFVs. For the distance or similarity measure, some examples are given to show that classical similarity measures based on the normalized Euclidean distance and normalized Minkowski distance do not meet the axiomatic definition of intuitionistic fuzzy similarity measures. Moreover,some illustrative examples are given to show that classical intuitionistic fuzzy TOPSIS methods do not ensure the monotonicity with the natural partial order or linear orders, which may yield some counter-intuitive results. To overcome the limitation of non-monotonicity, we propose a novel intuitionistic fuzzy TOPSIS method,using three new admissible distances with the linear orders measured by a score degree/similarity function and accuracy degree, or two aggregation functions, and prove that the proposed TOPSIS method is monotonous under these three linear orders.} This is the first result with a strict mathematical proof on the monotonicity with the linear orders for the intuitionistic fuzzy TOPSIS method.

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Xinxing Wu, Zhiyi Zhu, Chuan Chen, Guanrong Chen, Peide Liu. 2022-06-03. A Monotonous Intuitionistic Fuzzy TOPSIS Method under General Linear Orders via Admissible Distance Measures. https://doi.org/10.1109/tfuzz.2022.3205435

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