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A Two-Sided Matching Decision-Making Approach with Correlative Criteria Under Probabilistic Linguistic Environment

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  • Xiang Jia

    (Decision Sciences Institute, Fuzhou University, Fujian 350116, P. R. China)

  • Liang Wang

    (Decision Sciences Institute, Fuzhou University, Fujian 350108, P. R. China)

  • Ying-Ming Wang

    (Decision Sciences Institute, Fuzhou University, Key Laboratory of Spatial Data Mining and Information, Sharing of Ministry of Education, Fuzhou University, Fujian 350116, P. R. China)

  • Hui-Hui Song

    (Decision Sciences Institute, Fuzhou University, Fujian 350116, P. R. China)

Abstract

Two-sided matching decision-making (TSMDM) problems widely exist in human being’s life. In practical TSMDM problems, subjects who are being matched with usually tend to provide linguistic evaluations for convenience. Owing to the fuzziness of decision-making environment, subjects may provide several linguistic terms associated with their probabilities as the evaluations, which can be described as the probabilistic linguistic term sets (PLTSs). To model such scenarios, this paper proposes a TSMDM approach with probabilistic linguistic evaluations. The probabilistic linguistic evaluations are firstly normalized with the preservation of ignored probabilities. The normalized evaluations are then aggregated into the comprehensive evaluations by using the defined Choquet integral-based probabilistic linguistic aggregation (CIPLA) operator. Thereafter, the satisfaction degrees of two sides of subjects are calculated based on the closeness coefficient in TOPSIS method. On the basis of this, a multi-objective TSMDM model aiming to maximize the comprehensive satisfaction degree is built and transformed into a single-objective TSMDM model considering the weights of two sides. To solve the single-objective TSMDM model is to determine the optimal matching result. An illustrative example of matching enterprises and knowledge-sender universities is introduced to validate the proposed approach and compare it with other existing TSMDM approaches. The results illustrate that the proposed approach can not only avoid information loss, but also effectively integrate PLTSs with correlative criteria.

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  • Xiang Jia & Liang Wang & Ying-Ming Wang & Hui-Hui Song, 2023. "A Two-Sided Matching Decision-Making Approach with Correlative Criteria Under Probabilistic Linguistic Environment," International Journal of Information Technology & Decision Making (IJITDM), World Scientific Publishing Co. Pte. Ltd., vol. 22(03), pages 957-990, May.
  • Handle: RePEc:wsi:ijitdm:v:22:y:2023:i:03:n:s0219622022500596
    DOI: 10.1142/S0219622022500596
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