An integrated group decision-making technique under interval-valued probabilistic linguistic T-spherical fuzzy information and its application to the selection of cloud storage provider
Cloud storage is crucial in today's digital era due to its accessibility, scalability, cost savings, collaboration and enhanced security features. The selection of a reliable cloud storage provider is a significant multi-attribute group decision-making (MAGDM) problem that involves intrinsic re...
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| description | Cloud storage is crucial in today's digital era due to its accessibility, scalability, cost savings, collaboration and enhanced security features. The selection of a reliable cloud storage provider is a significant multi-attribute group decision-making (MAGDM) problem that involves intrinsic relationships among the various alternatives, attributes and decision DMs. Due to the uncertain and incomplete nature of the evaluation data for cloud storage providers, i.e., quality of service and user feedback, the identification of appropriate cloud storage providers with accurate service ranking remains an open research challenge. To address the above-mentioned challenge, this work proposes the concept of interval-valued probabilistic linguistic T-spherical fuzzy set (IVPLt-SFS). Then, some basic operations and a score function are defined to compare two or more IVPLt-SF numbers (IVPLt-SFNs). For information fusion, two aggregation operators for IVPLt-SFN are also developed. Next, an extended TOPSIS method-based group decision-making technique under interval-valued probabilistic linguistic T-spherical fuzzy information is established to solve the MAGDM problem. Finally, a numerical example is given to illustrate the practicability and usefulness of the designed approach and its suitability as a decision-making tool for selecting a cloud storage provider. Comparative and sensitivity analysis confirmed that this paper enriches the theory and methodology of the selection problem of cloud storage provider and MAGDM analysis. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-76bfc37caeed4408965452bc35414c1d2023-07-04T01:32:18ZengAIMS PressAIMS Mathematics2473-69882023-06-0189202232025310.3934/math.20231031An integrated group decision-making technique under interval-valued probabilistic linguistic T-spherical fuzzy information and its application to the selection of cloud storage providerShahid Hussain Gurmani 0Zhao Zhang1 Rana Muhammad Zulqarnain21. School of Mathematical Sciences, Zhejiang Normal University, Jinhua, Zhejiang 321004, China1. School of Mathematical Sciences, Zhejiang Normal University, Jinhua, Zhejiang 321004, China2. Department of Mathematics, University of Management and Technology, Sialkot Campus, 51310, PakistanCloud storage is crucial in today's digital era due to its accessibility, scalability, cost savings, collaboration and enhanced security features. The selection of a reliable cloud storage provider is a significant multi-attribute group decision-making (MAGDM) problem that involves intrinsic relationships among the various alternatives, attributes and decision DMs. Due to the uncertain and incomplete nature of the evaluation data for cloud storage providers, i.e., quality of service and user feedback, the identification of appropriate cloud storage providers with accurate service ranking remains an open research challenge. To address the above-mentioned challenge, this work proposes the concept of interval-valued probabilistic linguistic T-spherical fuzzy set (IVPLt-SFS). Then, some basic operations and a score function are defined to compare two or more IVPLt-SF numbers (IVPLt-SFNs). For information fusion, two aggregation operators for IVPLt-SFN are also developed. Next, an extended TOPSIS method-based group decision-making technique under interval-valued probabilistic linguistic T-spherical fuzzy information is established to solve the MAGDM problem. Finally, a numerical example is given to illustrate the practicability and usefulness of the designed approach and its suitability as a decision-making tool for selecting a cloud storage provider. Comparative and sensitivity analysis confirmed that this paper enriches the theory and methodology of the selection problem of cloud storage provider and MAGDM analysis.https://www.aimspress.com/article/doi/10.3934/math.20231031?viewType=HTMLt-spherical fuzzy setlinguistic t-spherical fuzzy setmulti-attribute group decision-makingaggregation operatortopsis method |
| spellingShingle | Shahid Hussain Gurmani Zhao Zhang Rana Muhammad Zulqarnain An integrated group decision-making technique under interval-valued probabilistic linguistic T-spherical fuzzy information and its application to the selection of cloud storage provider AIMS Mathematics t-spherical fuzzy set linguistic t-spherical fuzzy set multi-attribute group decision-making aggregation operator topsis method |
| title | An integrated group decision-making technique under interval-valued probabilistic linguistic T-spherical fuzzy information and its application to the selection of cloud storage provider |
| title_full | An integrated group decision-making technique under interval-valued probabilistic linguistic T-spherical fuzzy information and its application to the selection of cloud storage provider |
| title_fullStr | An integrated group decision-making technique under interval-valued probabilistic linguistic T-spherical fuzzy information and its application to the selection of cloud storage provider |
| title_full_unstemmed | An integrated group decision-making technique under interval-valued probabilistic linguistic T-spherical fuzzy information and its application to the selection of cloud storage provider |
| title_short | An integrated group decision-making technique under interval-valued probabilistic linguistic T-spherical fuzzy information and its application to the selection of cloud storage provider |
| title_sort | integrated group decision making technique under interval valued probabilistic linguistic t spherical fuzzy information and its application to the selection of cloud storage provider |
| topic | t-spherical fuzzy set linguistic t-spherical fuzzy set multi-attribute group decision-making aggregation operator topsis method |
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