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Mathematical Problems in Engineering
Volume 2019, Article ID 8594938, 8 pages
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Research Article
Extended Version of Linguistic Picture Fuzzy TOPSIS Method
and Its Applications in Enterprise Resource Planning Systems
Shouzhen Zeng ,1,2 Muhammad Qiyas,3 Muhammad Arif ,3 and Tariq Mahmood4
1
School of Management, Fudan University, Shanghai 200433, China
2
School of Business, Ningbo University, Ningbo 315211, China
3
Department of Mathematics, Abdul Wali Khan University Mardan, Pakistan
4
Department of Electronics, University of Engineering and Technology, Taxila Sub-Campus Chakwal, Pakistan
Correspondence should be addressed to Muhammad Arif; marifmaths@[Link]
Received 19 July 2018; Accepted 2 January 2019; Published 27 January 2019
Academic Editor: Mariusz Michta
Copyright © 2019 Shouzhen Zeng et al. This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License,
which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
The main objective of the proposed research in this paper is introducing an extended version of the linguistic picture fuzzy TOPSIS
technique and then solving the problems in enterprise resource planning systems. In this article, we use the uncertain information in
terms of linguistic picture fuzzy numbers; the decision maker provides membership, neutral, and nonmembership fuzzy linguistic
terms to represent uncertain assessments information of alternatives in linguistic multicriteria decision making (LMCDMs). In
order to introduce the extended version of TOPSIS method, we defined a new hamming distance measure between two linguistic
picture fuzzy numbers. Further, we apply the proposed method to problem of enterprise resource planning systems and discuss
numerical implementation of the proposed method of LMCDM.
1. Introduction to be stated by fuzzy information; see [1–5], such as fuzzy
numbers, intuitionistic fuzzy numbers [6], and linguistic
In our daily life, we face some tasks and activities to handle variable [7, 8].
with the help of decision making. Basically, decision making Fuzzy set theory was firstly defined by Zadeh’s in 1965 [9],
is an intellectual process which depends on different spiritual which is a framework to encounter confusion, ambiguity, and
and reasoning processes; in the decision making process exaggeration and perform a degree of membership for each
we choose a good alternative from the set of all available member of the nature of discussion to a subset of it. Therefore,
alternatives. For a single decision maker, it is mostly difficult we have a forum of true values. The degree of nonmembership
to examine all related conditions of a problem due to the was added by Atanassov in 1983 to FS; Atanassov defined the
increasing complication of the socioeconomic environment. notion of intuitionistic fuzzy set (IFS) [10], which is mostly
In everyday life, many decision making measures take place permissible to handle the ambiguity quantification and give
in group information. However, under more conditions, for the occasion to correctly model the problem based on existing
the real multiple attribute decision making problems, the judgment and experience [11]. The two of these structures
decision information about alternatives is usually uncertain are assumed to be a soft approach which, in turn, start soft
or fuzzy due to the increasing complication of the socioe- computing and approximate analysis [12].
conomic situation and the ambiguity of inherent subjective Later on in 2014, Cuong proposed the concept of picture
attribute of human thinking; thus, numerical values are fuzzy set (PFS) and studied its basic operations and proper-
incomplete or partial for exemplary real-life decision prob- ties. The picture fuzzy set is designated by the membership,
lems. However, in practice, the attribute values of decision neutral, and nonmembership degree. The only restraint is that
problems are not ever disposed by crisp information because the sum of the membership, neutral, and nonmembership
of the fuzziness, and many of them are more considerable degrees must not exceed 1. PFS are basically used for those
