Trigonometric Similarity Measures for Neutrosophic Hypersoft Sets With Application to Renewable Energy Source Selection

Abstract

Cosine and cotangent similarity measurements are critical in applications for determining degrees of difference and similarity between objects. In the literature, numerous similarity measures for various extensions of fuzzy set, soft set, Intuitionistic Fuzzy Sets (IFSs), Pythagorean Fuzzy Sets (PFSs) and HyperSoft Sets (HSSs) have been explored. Neutrosophic HyperSoft Sets (NHSSs), on the other hand, has fewer cosine and cotangent similarity measures. In this paper, we propose the trigonometric similarity measures of NHSSs. We further investigate the basic operators, theorems, and propositions for the proposed similarity measures. We know that global warming causes environmental problems. One of applications for solving global warming is the concept of renewable energy. To show the effectiveness of the proposed similarity measures, we apply them to renewable energy source selection problems. The study reveals the best geographical area to install the energy production units, under some technical attributive factors. To check the validity and superiority of the proposed work, it is compared with some existing techniques which reveal that, decision-making problems with further bifurcated attributes, have more accurate and precise results and can only be solved with this technique. In the future, the proposed techniques can be applied to case studies, in which attributes are more than one and further bifurcated along with more than one decision-maker. Also, this proposed work can be extended for several existing hybrids of hypersoft sets, intuitionistic hypersoft, neutrosophic hypersoft set, bi-polar hypersoft, m-polar hypersoft sets, and Pythagorean hypersoft set to solve Multi-Criteria Decision Making (MCDM) problems.

Keywords

• Cosine
• cotangent
• neutrosophic hypersoft matrices (NHSMs)
• neutrosophic hypersoft sets (NHSSs)
• renewable energy source
• similarity measures