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The decision-making under several uncertainties is a major concern to choose the best alternative among the several separate alternatives. This paper deals with the uncertainty of using a complete ranking classification of generalized trapezoidal fuzzy numbers (GTrFNs). In the view of that several measures such as mode, spread, midpoint the score, radius, left and right fuzziness score and linguistic expression are considered to compute the ranking order of GTrFN. Using the proposed complete ranking of GTrFN, this paper presents a method for solving fuzzy multi-criteria decision-making problems. The comparative analysis of existing methods with our proposed method is also described.
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Marimuthu, D., Mahapatra, G.S. Multi-criteria decision-making using a complete ranking of generalized trapezoidal fuzzy numbers. Soft Comput 25, 9859–9871 (2021). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00500-020-05322-8
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