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

• Published in: Group decision and negotiation Vol. 26; no. 3; pp. 597 - 627
• Main Authors: Tian, Zhang-peng, Wang, Jing, Wang, Jian-qiang, Zhang, Hong-yu
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Dordrecht Springer Netherlands 01.05.2017; Springer Nature B.V
• Subjects: Biological and Physical Anthropology; Business and Management; Decision makers; Decision making; Decision making units; Design techniques; Environmental accounting; Fuzzy sets; Green marketing; Green products; Group decision making; Linguistics; Methods; Multiple criteria decision making; Operators; Product design; Product development; Product life cycle; Risk preferences; Semantics; Studies; United States; United States > US; Green product development; Multi-criteria group decision-making; Simplified neutrosophic linguistic set; QUALIFLEX; Power aggregation operator
• ISSN: 0926-2644; 1572-9907
• DOI: 10.1007/s10726-016-9479-5

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.