Scientific Reports (May 2024)

Interval-valued bipolar complex fuzzy soft sets and their applications in decision making

  • Abdul Jaleel,
  • Tahir Mahmood,
  • Walid Emam,
  • Shi Yin

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-024-58792-3
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 14, no. 1
pp. 1 – 29

Abstract

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Abstract In this manuscript we demonstrate interval-valued bipolar complex fuzzy set (IVBCFS) and then interval-valued bipolar complex fuzzy soft set (IVBCFSS), as a generalization of fuzzy set, interval-valued fuzzy set, bipolar fuzzy set, complex fuzzy set and soft set. We also initiate operational laws and basic results and properties for IVBCFS and IVBCFSS. Further explanation is given for the basic algebraic operations like complement, extended union, extended intersection, restricted union, and restricted intersection, AND product and OR product for IVBCFSS. Moreover, we demonstrate some fundamental aggregation operators like IVBCFS average aggregation, IVBCFS geometric and as well as their properties. To emphasize the usefulness and application of the system, we also develop the decision-making method and joint instances of the IVBCFSS (set-ups 1 and 2). In order to describe the effectiveness and influence of the approaching novel work, this study uses a comparative analysis of the new creating concept with prevailing ideas.

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