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Simplified Neutrosophic Linguistic Multi-criteria Group Decision-Making Approach to Green Product Development

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For many companies, green product development has become a key strategic consideration due to regulatory requirements and market trends. In this paper, the life cycle assessment technique is used to develop an innovative multi-criteria group decision-making approach that incorporates power aggregation operators and a TOPSIS-based QUALIFLEX method in order to solve green product design selection problems using neutrosophic linguistic information. Differences in semantics as well as the risk preferences of decision-makers are considered in the proposed method. The practicality and effectiveness of the proposed approach are then demonstrated through an illustrative example, in which the proposed method is used to select the optimum green product design, followed by sensitivity and comparative analyses.

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The authors would like to thank the editors and anonymous reviewers for their helpful comments and suggestions. This work was supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (Nos. 71271218, 71571193 and 71431006).

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    Zhang-peng Tian, Jing Wang, Jian-qiang Wang & Hong-yu Zhang

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Tian, Zp., Wang, J., Wang, Jq. et al. Simplified Neutrosophic Linguistic Multi-criteria Group Decision-Making Approach to Green Product Development. Group Decis Negot 26, 597–627 (2017). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10726-016-9479-5

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