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q-Fractional Hesitant Fuzzy Sets and Their Correlation Coefficients: Multi-Criteria Decision Making Technique for Selection of Agricultural Land to Cultivate Apples Crops

Year: 2025

Type: article

Abstract: The q-Fractional Fuzzy Sets (q-FrFSs) offers information in Membership Grade (MG) and Non-membership Grade (NMG) of an object; however, both grades have the hesitancy factor because complex information usually does not give single MG and single NMG. Therefore, in this study we initiate the concept of q-Fractional Hesitant Fuzzy Sets (q-FrHFSs) and its basic properties. In q-FrHFSs not only hesitancy factor is taken into account but it also consider all possible values of uncertainties in [0, 1]×[0, 1]. Thus Correlation Coefficients (CCs) on q-FrHFSs are necessary to cope uncertain information with hesitancy, MGs and NMGs. In this study we introduce two types of CCs namely CCs on q-FrHFSs and weighted CCs on q-FrHFSs. We investigate underlying properties of these CCs and give a MCDM method on q-FrHFSs environment. We consider an application of our method to agricultural land selection across a set of cities for cultivation of apples crop. At the end, we compare our method of q-FrHFSs to some existing frameworks.

Source: IEEE Access

DOI: 10.1109/access.2025.3582884

Authors: Nadeem Ajaib, Khizar Hayat, Dragan Pamucar, Kamran Kausar

Institutions: University of Kotli, Azad Jammu and Kashmir, Széchenyi István University

Language: English

Topic: Multi-Criteria Decision Making

Subfield: Management Science and Operations Research

Field: Decision Sciences

Domain: Social Sciences

SDG: Zero hunger

Open Access status: gold

Estimated APC paid: $2,075