Letter
Green & Sustainable Science & Technology
Sayan Mukherjee
Summary: This article provides comments on the paper by Govindan et al. (2013), which introduces a method for evaluating the sustainability performance of suppliers. It suggests using economic, environmental, and social factors for ranking and selecting suppliers, and proposes corrections to some of the equations used in the original study.
JOURNAL OF CLEANER PRODUCTION
(2021)
Article
Mathematics
Madad Khan, Saima Anis, Kainat Bibi, Sohail Iqbal, Florentin Smarandache
Summary: This paper introduces the concept of complex neutrosophic soft matrices, defines basic operations, extends the concept to complex neutrosophic soft sets, proves related properties, and develops an algorithm for signal processing.
JOURNAL OF MATHEMATICS
(2021)
Article
Automation & Control Systems
Hui Wang, Yun Luo, Bin Deng, Jiong Lin, Xihua Li
Summary: To assist patients in selecting doctors, researchers propose a novel decision-making method that combines aspect-based sentiment analysis, single-valued neutrosophic sets, and an extended TOPSIS method. The method constructs a feature dictionary of patient satisfaction using Word2Vec and extract aspects and sentiments from patients' text reviews using a rule-based approach. Through the use of single-valued neutrosophic sets, the method addresses positive, neutral, and negative sentiment information, and ranks doctors considering patients' attitudinal character and preference information using the extended TOPSIS method.
ENGINEERING APPLICATIONS OF ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE
(2023)
Article
Environmental Sciences
Pham Minh Tam, Dinh Thi Hang, Pham Thu Thuy, Luu Quoc Dat
Summary: Sustainable consumption is crucial for reducing environmental crises. This study proposes the TOPSIS approach to evaluate sustainable consumption for green growth, using the Method of Maximizing Deviation to assess criteria weights in IVNSs. The evaluation process covers four main criteria with eight sub-criteria, including environment, energy, economics, and health. Canada ranks highest in green growth, attributed to its extensive land area and potential for renewable energy. The study suggests policy implications for Vietnam, such as balancing fertility and mortality rates and regulating economic growth and resource exploitation.
ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCE AND POLLUTION RESEARCH
(2023)
Article
Computer Science, Artificial Intelligence
Morteza Yazdani, Ali Ebadi Torkayesh, Zeljko Stevic, Prasenjit Chatterjee, Sahand Asgharieh Ahari, Violeta Doval Hernandez
Summary: Evolution of supply chain management has gone beyond simple benefit and economic viewpoints. Supplier selection and performance assessment are key strategic elements in establishing a sustainable and socially responsive SCM. The proposed sustainable supplier evaluation structure under IVFN model uses CRITIC and CoCoSo methods for supplier evaluation and selection. Supplier 5 emerges as the best supplier with the highest overall score. The study outcomes demonstrate the reliability of the model and provide a practical platform for sustainable supplier selection in the procurement and SC industries.
EXPERT SYSTEMS WITH APPLICATIONS
(2021)
Article
Computer Science, Information Systems
Rohit Kumar Tiwari, Rakesh Kumar
Summary: This paper proposes a cloud service selection framework based on SVNS and TOPSIS techniques, which can help cloud users find the best cloud services according to their needs. A case study conducted on a real dataset demonstrates the feasibility and usefulness of the framework in practice.
JOURNAL OF KING SAUD UNIVERSITY-COMPUTER AND INFORMATION SCIENCES
(2022)
Article
Computer Science, Artificial Intelligence
Luong Thi Hong Lan, Do Thi Thu Hien, Nguyen Tho Thong, Florentin Smarandache, Nguyen Long Giang
Summary: Decision-making is a systematic process that provides optimal solutions by evaluating feasible alternatives. This paper introduces a Temporal Complex neutrosophic set (TCNS) and proposes a TCNS-ANP-TOPSIS model for multi-criteria decision-making. The model extends existing methods to incorporate different time intervals and is demonstrated through a case study in choosing a tourist destination. Comparative analysis shows the effectiveness and consistency of the proposed model.
APPLIED SOFT COMPUTING
(2023)
Article
Automation & Control Systems
Quang-Thinh Bui, My-Phuong Ngo, Vaclav Snasel, Witold Pedrycz, Bay Vo
Summary: The neutrosophic fuzzy set (NF-set) is a hybrid structure combining fuzzy and neutrosophic sets, used to handle imprecise or vague data. This paper introduces similarity-based information measures, including entropy and cross-entropy, between NF-sets for the first time. The paper also proposes an efficient algorithm for multi-criteria decision making using these information measures.
ENGINEERING APPLICATIONS OF ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE
(2023)
Article
Mathematics
Seyed Amirali Hoseini, Sarfaraz Hashemkhani Zolfani, Paulius Skackauskas, Alireza Fallahpour, Sara Saberi
Summary: This study developed an improved combined IT2F-BWM and IT2F-TOPSIS model for selecting the most resilient supplier. By utilizing this model, potential suppliers can be ranked and evaluated in an Interval Type-2 Fuzzy environment, resulting in better handling of uncertainty.
Article
Multidisciplinary Sciences
Qianlong Zhao, Junyi Chen, Fulun Li, Aishu Li, Qian Li
Summary: The study evaluates the dynamic changes in China's maternal health status from 2004 to 2018, showing an overall improvement in maternal health care year by year, with the best performance from 2015 to 2018. Although the ranking values of various evaluation methods were slightly different, the overall trend was consistent.
Article
Multidisciplinary Sciences
Hui Ran
Summary: As an important supplement to financial institutions in China, micro-loan companies serve agriculture, rural areas, farmers, small and micro enterprises, and individuals, to some extent, alleviating their financing difficulties and regulating private finance. However, due to inadequate risk management, the risk problem has become increasingly prominent in micro-loan companies, which face certain risk management issues with the continuous growth of rural credit loan amounts and increasing microfinance lending customers. This paper proposes the SVNN-MABAC method, which uses Hamming distances of single-valued neutrosophic sets (SVNSs) and maximizing deviation method (MDM) to evaluate the performance of sustainable microfinance groups lending under SVNSs.
Article
Green & Sustainable Science & Technology
Roya Ghamari, Mohammad Mahdavi-Mazdeh, Seyed Farid Ghannadpour
Summary: This study presents a framework for evaluating suppliers in the steel industry, utilizing various methods for supplier ranking. Comparative analysis shows that taking resilience criteria into account alters supplier ranking results, providing important insights for managers.
ENVIRONMENT DEVELOPMENT AND SUSTAINABILITY
(2022)
Article
Green & Sustainable Science & Technology
Renan Felinto de Farias Aires, Luciano Ferreira
Summary: This study presents a new material selection approach based on the TOPSIS method, which solves the rank reversal problem in multi-criteria decision-making methods and applies to sustainable material selection.
Article
Computer Science, Artificial Intelligence
Meng Liu, Xiaolin Wang, Yupeng Li
Summary: This study develops an approach for supplier selection that integrates both fuzzy criteria and stochastic criteria to address the complexity and unstructured nature of contemporary service supplier selection problems.
JOURNAL OF INTELLIGENT & FUZZY SYSTEMS
(2022)
Article
Environmental Sciences
Ahmadreza Afrasiabi, Madjid Tavana, Debora Di Caprio
Summary: The formalization and solution of supplier selection problems based on sustainable indicators have become essential in strategic analysis and maximizing competitive advantage in the supply chain process. The study proposes a hybrid fuzzy multi-criteria decision making method to solve sustainable-resilient supplier selection problems and demonstrates its applicability through a real-life application. The results show the influential criteria in studying SRSSPs related to the manufacturing industry and validate the robustness of the proposed framework through sensitivity analysis methods.
ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCE AND POLLUTION RESEARCH
(2022)
Article
Computer Science, Artificial Intelligence
Rituparna Chutia, Florentin Smarandache
Summary: This paper introduces an innovative method for ranking neutrosophic numbers based on the values and ambiguity of a single-valued neutrosophic number. The method involves a convex combination of truth-membership function value and ambiguity with the sum of values and ambiguities of other membership functions, resulting in different levels of optimism for decision-makers. The approach considers the contributions from different membership functions and aims to rank both single-valued neutrosophic numbers and their corresponding images consistently.
ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE REVIEW
(2022)
Article
Computer Science, Artificial Intelligence
Atiqe Ur Rahman, Muhammad Saeed, Florentin Smarandache
Summary: FHS-set is an effective mathematical tool to solve problems dealing with uncertainties. By developing a theoretical framework of convexity and concavity on fuzzy hypersoft set, it addresses the complexities of multi-argument approximate functions and establishes generalized properties.
Editorial Material
Computer Science, Artificial Intelligence
Yaser Saber, Fahad Alsharari, Florentin Smarandache
Summary: This paper introduces the concepts of single-valued neutrosophic soft sets and single-valued neutrosophic soft topology, and studies their properties and applications. These models provide new approaches for dealing with uncertainty.
Article
Mathematics
Mohammad Hamidi, Florentin Smarandache, Elham Davneshvar
Summary: This paper introduces the concept of n-superhypergraphs and novel concepts such as supervertices, superedges, and superhypergraph via the concept of flow. It computes the number of superedges in superhypergraphs and derives the number of all superhypergraphs on any nonempty set based on superedges and partitions. The paper also introduces the incidence matrix and computes the characteristic polynomial for the incidence matrix to obtain the spectrum of superhypergraphs.
JOURNAL OF MATHEMATICS
(2022)
Article
Multidisciplinary Sciences
Sania Batool, Masooma Raza Hashmi, Muhammad Riaz, Florentin Smarandache, Dragan Pamucar, Dejan Spasic
Summary: The single-valued neutrosophic hesitant fuzzy set (SVNHFS) is a flexible and efficient model for optimization, computational intelligence, and intelligent decision support systems. New aggregation operators (AOs) are proposed to effectively utilize SVNHFNs and applied to practical problems.
Article
Computer Science, Artificial Intelligence
Xindong Peng, Jingguo Dai, Florentin Smarandache
Summary: This paper explores the assessment method of project-driven immersion teaching in extreme programming. By utilizing neutrosophic linguistic set and multi-criteria decision making algorithm, the uncertainties and counterintuitive phenomena in the assessment process can be addressed.
INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF MACHINE LEARNING AND CYBERNETICS
(2023)
Article
Computer Science, Artificial Intelligence
Shazia Rana, Muhammad Saeed, Badria Almaz Ali Yousif, Florentin Smarandache, Hamiden Abd El-Wahed Khalifa
Summary: This article introduces the formulation of higher dimensional mathematical structures in the extended fuzzy set theory that incorporates time as a fundamental source of variation. It presents the unique plithogenic crisp time-leveled hypersoft-matrix (PCTLHS matrix) model for organizing and classifying higher dimensional information based on specific time levels. The concept of top view and level cuts are described to focus on specific pieces of information while allowing variation in others. The model is then applied to organize and classify the states of patients with COVID-19, providing a detailed example.
APPLIED COMPUTATIONAL INTELLIGENCE AND SOFT COMPUTING
(2022)
Article
Automation & Control Systems
Aurimas Petrovas, Romualdas Bausys, Edmundas Kazimieras Zavadskas, Florentin Smarandache
Summary: Creative procedural generation requires a nondeterministic result, and fuzzy neutrosophic sets can increase this nondeterminism. A combined approach of a multi-criteria decision algorithm and a genetic algorithm is proposed to generate game scenes, satisfying game rules and improving aesthetics value.
STUDIES IN INFORMATICS AND CONTROL
(2022)
Article
Computer Science, Artificial Intelligence
Luong Thi Hong Lan, Do Thi Thu Hien, Nguyen Tho Thong, Florentin Smarandache, Nguyen Long Giang
Summary: Decision-making is a systematic process that provides optimal solutions by evaluating feasible alternatives. This paper introduces a Temporal Complex neutrosophic set (TCNS) and proposes a TCNS-ANP-TOPSIS model for multi-criteria decision-making. The model extends existing methods to incorporate different time intervals and is demonstrated through a case study in choosing a tourist destination. Comparative analysis shows the effectiveness and consistency of the proposed model.
APPLIED SOFT COMPUTING
(2023)
Article
Mathematics, Interdisciplinary Applications
Muhammad Aslam, Florentin Smarandache
Summary: In this paper, a neutrosophic chi-square-test for consistency is proposed, incorporating neutrosophic statistics, to analyze imprecise data. The performance of the proposed test is evaluated through a comparative analysis with the traditional chi-square-test based on classical statistics. The application of the proposed test is illustrated with a numerical example, showcasing its potential benefits in dealing with imprecise data. The proposed neutrosophic chi-square-test for consistency is expected to outperform its classical counterpart, contributing significantly to the field of statistical analysis.
FRONTIERS IN APPLIED MATHEMATICS AND STATISTICS
(2023)
Article
Mathematics, Applied
Mohammad Hamidi, Florentin Smarandache
Summary: This paper introduces the concept of valued-inverse Dombi neutrosophic graphs and their application in complex networks. It presents the notions of complements and self-complements, and investigates their completeness and strength.
Article
Computer Science, Information Systems
Dragisa Stanujkic, Darjan Karabasevic, Gabrijela Popovic, Florentin Smarandache, Predrag S. Stanimirovic, Muzafer Saracevic, Vasilios N. Katsikis
Summary: This article presents an extension of the Integrated Simple Weighted Sum Product (WISP) method customized for single-valued neutrosophic numbers. The extension takes advantage of the application of neutrosophic sets in solving complex decision-making problems and problems related to assessments, prediction uncertainty, and imprecision. The article also proposes an adapted questionnaire and linguistic variables for collecting respondents' attitudes using single-valued neutrosophic numbers more simply and accurately. Additionally, a method for deneutrosophication is proposed, which transforms a single-valued neutrosophic number into a crisp number. The use and characteristics of this improvement are illustrated through an example of evaluating rural tourist tours.
Article
Computer Science, Information Systems
Umit Cali, Muhammet Deveci, Shammya Shananda Saha, Ugur Halden, Florentin Smarandache
Summary: This paper investigates different use cases of an energy blockchain system that can create additional value using blockchain technology. It proposes an evaluation and ranking model, and validates it through comparison with alternative models and sensitivity analysis. The prioritization of use cases can assist companies, standardization bodies, and government authorities in making better operational decisions.
Article
Computer Science, Information Systems
Arunodaya R. Mishra, Abhijit Saha, Pratibha Rani, Ibrahim M. Hezam, Rajeev Shrivastava, Florentin Smarandache
Summary: This paper proposes a comprehensive framework to assess the social, economic, and environmental factors that affect the sustainability of low-carbon tourism strategies. It considers uncertainty and inconsistency by using a neutrosophic setting. The findings provide valuable insights for low-carbon tourism experts and identify the optimum sustainable low-carbon tourism strategy.
Article
Engineering, Multidisciplinary
Shouzhen Zeng, Shahbaz Ali, Muhammad Khalid Mahmood, Florentin Smarandache, Daud Ahmad
Summary: A new hybrid model m-polar Diophantine neutrosophic N-soft set is developed, which is more efficient and versatile in managing vulnerabilities and mitigating the drawbacks of existing models.
CMES-COMPUTER MODELING IN ENGINEERING & SCIENCES
(2022)
