A Multicriteria Selection Framework for Wireless Communication Infrastructure with Interval-Valued Pythagorean Fuzzy Assessment

• Main Authors: Shanshan Qiu, Dan Fu, Xiaofang Deng
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Published: Hindawi-Wiley 2021-01-01
• Series: Wireless Communications and Mobile Computing
• Online Access: http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2021/9913737

In recent years, interval-valued Pythagorean fuzzy number is playing a more and more important role in decision management. It is a more effective and powerful tool to handle fuzzy information in decision problems. The multicriteria decision-making theory has been widely used in solving practical problems, such as the risk assessment of financial investment, engineering and construction, medical and health care, and information security. The main purpose of this paper is to apply a new interval-valued Pythagorean fuzzy decision-making method to practice and to analyze and solve the problem of wireless communication infrastructure. In this paper, a new interval-valued Pythagorean fuzzy ranking method, extending scope of application of the VIKOR method to interval-valued Pythagorean fuzzy set, is proposed. In order to adapt to actual needs, subjective and objective weights are combined to solve decision-making problems to enhance its practicality, validity, and effectiveness. An example of wireless communication infrastructure problem is provided to illustrate the rationality of this method and verify its advantages.