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A new soft computing approach for green supplier selection problem with interval type-2 trapezoidal fuzzy statistical group decision and avoidance of information loss

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Green supplier selection problem (GSSP) is viewed as multiple attributes group decision-making (MAGDM) issue that includes the green growth and influential factors within subjective and objective natures. Because of the expanding uncertain conditions of social and economic environments, some assessment factors are not sufficiently described by numerical appraisals and classic fuzzy sets. Moreover, supply chain decision makers (DMs) may not provide complete rationality under numerous viable choice circumstances. In this research, a new MAGDM model is proposed by interval type-2 trapezoidal fuzzy numbers (IT2TrFNs) via some matrices of possibilistic mean and standard deviation statistical concepts. A new weighting method of experts within the group decision-making process is developed based on possibilistic statistical information. Also, a new ranking process based on relative-closeness coefficients is presented to rank all green supplier candidates under IT2TrF uncertainty. Finally, this research offers an illustrative example in supply chain networks to appraise green supplier candidates in terms of some factors by the proposed model along with the comparison to a recent decision method.

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Abbreviations

GSSP:

Green supplier selection problem

MAGDM:

Multiple attributes group decision making

DMs:

Decision makers

GDM:

Group decision making

IT2FSs:

Interval type-2 fuzzy sets

IT2TrFNs:

Interval type-2 trapezoidal fuzzy numbers

GSCM:

Green supply chain management

GRA:

Grey relational analysis

ANP:

Analytic network process

TOPSIS:

Technique for order of preference by similarity to ideal solution 

PROMETHEE:

Preference ranking organization method for enrichment evaluations

DEMATEL:

Decision-making trial and evaluation laboratory

QFD:

Quality function deployment

COPRAS:

Complex proportional assessment 

AHP:

Analytic hierarchy process

VIKOR:

The acronym is in Serbian: VlseKriterijumska Optimizacija I Kompromisno Resenje, meaning multicriteria optimization and compromise solution

PM:

Possibilistic mean

PSD:

Possibilistic standard deviation

SCs:

Statistical concepts

L-NID:

Left negative ideal decision

R-NID:

Right negative ideal decision

PIV:

Positive ideal vector

NIV:

Negative ideal vector

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  1. Department of Industrial Engineering, Faculty of Engineering, Shahed University, Tehran, Iran

    S. M. Mousavi

  2. Department of Industrial Engineering and Management Systems, Amirkabir University of Technology, Tehran, Iran

    N. Foroozesh

  3. Department of Construction Management and Real Estate, Faculty of Civil Engineering, Vilnius Gediminas Technical University, Vilnius, Lithuania

    E. K. Zavadskas & J. Antucheviciene

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Mousavi, S.M., Foroozesh, N., Zavadskas, E.K. et al. A new soft computing approach for green supplier selection problem with interval type-2 trapezoidal fuzzy statistical group decision and avoidance of information loss. Soft Comput 24, 12313–12327 (2020). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00500-020-04675-4

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