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Simplified Neutrosophic Linguistic Multi-criteria Group Decision-Making Approach to Green Product Development

Authors: Zhang-peng Tian, Jing Wang, Jian-qiang Wang, Hong-yu Zhang

Published in: Group Decision and Negotiation | Issue 3/2017

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For many companies, green product development has become a key strategic consideration due to regulatory requirements and market trends. In this paper, the life cycle assessment technique is used to develop an innovative multi-criteria group decision-making approach that incorporates power aggregation operators and a TOPSIS-based QUALIFLEX method in order to solve green product design selection problems using neutrosophic linguistic information. Differences in semantics as well as the risk preferences of decision-makers are considered in the proposed method. The practicality and effectiveness of the proposed approach are then demonstrated through an illustrative example, in which the proposed method is used to select the optimum green product design, followed by sensitivity and comparative analyses.

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Title: Simplified Neutrosophic Linguistic Multi-criteria Group Decision-Making Approach to Green Product Development
Authors: Zhang-peng Tian
Jing Wang
Jian-qiang Wang
Hong-yu Zhang
Publication date: 20-04-2016
Publisher: Springer Netherlands
Published in: Group Decision and Negotiation / Issue 3/2017
Print ISSN: 0926-2644
Electronic ISSN: 1572-9907
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/s10726-016-9479-5

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