Multiple-attribute decision making method based on power generalized maclaurin symmetric mean operators under normal wiggly hesitant fuzzy environment.

A normal wiggly hesitant fuzzy set is a very useful tool to mine the potential uncertain information given by decision makers, which is considered as an extension of hesitant fuzzy set and can improve the effectiveness of decision making. Power average operator can relieve the impact on decision result of unreasonable data, and the generalized Maclaurin symmetric mean operator (GMSM) is an extension of Maclaurin symmetric mean operator with wider range of applications, which can consider the relationship among decision attributes. By integrating the advantages of them, in this paper, we develop the normal wiggly hesitant fuzzy power GMSM (NWHFPGMSM) operator and its weighted form based on the distance measure of two normal wiggly hesitant fuzzy elements, then we further discuss their properties and some special cases. Thus, a new multi-attribute decision making method based on the NWHFPGMSM operator under normal wiggly hesitant fuzzy environment is proposed. Finally, we select some examples to illustrate the effectiveness and superiority of the proposed method in this paper through comparison and analysis with other methods. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]