Research Article
An Approach of Decision-Making under the Framework of
Fermatean Fuzzy Sets
Muhammad Sarwar Sindhu,
1
Imran Siddique ,
2
Muhammad Ahsan,
1
Fahd Jarad ,
3,4,5
and Taner Altunok
6
1
Virtual University of Pakistan, Lahore 54770, Pakistan
2
Department of Mathematics, University of Management and Technology, Lahore 54770, Pakistan
3
Department of Mathematics, Cankaya University, Etimesgut, Ankara, Turkey
4
Department of Mathematics, King Abdulaziz University, Jeddah, Saudi Arabia
5
Department of Medical Research, China Medical University Hospital, China Medical University, Taichung, Taiwan
6
Department of Industrial Engineering, Konya Food and Agriculture University, Meram, Konya, Turkey
Correspondence should be addressed to Imran Siddique; imransmsrazi@gmail.com and Fahd Jarad; fahd@cankaya.edu.tr
Received 21 January 2022; Revised 3 March 2022; Accepted 21 June 2022; Published 8 July 2022
Academic Editor: Gianpaolo Di Bona
Copyright © 2022 Muhammad Sarwar Sindhu et al. is is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons
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properly cited.
Because of its influence on various elements of human life experiences and conditions, the building industry is a significant
business. In the recent past, environmental considerations have been incorporated in the design and planning stages of building
supply chains. e process of evaluating and selecting suppliers is one of the most important issues in supply chain management.
A multicriteria decision-making (MCDM) problem can be utilized to handle such issues. e goal of this research is to present a
new and efficient technique for selecting suppliers with ambiguous data. e suggested methodology’s structure is based on
technology for order of preference by similarity to ideal solution (TOPSIS), with Fermatean fuzzy sets (F
r
FSs) employed to cope
with information uncertainty. In this article, authors modified the distance between F
r
FSs to propose the similarity measure and
implemented it to form the MCDM model to resolve the vague and uncertain data. Moreover, we used this similarity measure to
choose the optimal alternative. A practical example for alternative selection is provided, along with a comparison of the acquired
findings to existing approach. Finally, to strengthen the outcome obtained through the proposed model, sensitivity analysis and
time complexity analysis are performed.
1. Introduction
In real-world situations, we frequently encounter tasks and
activities that necessitate the usage of decision-making
(DM
g
) procedures. DM
g
may be viewed as a problem-
solving process that yields an ideal, or at the very least
reasonable, solution. In general, DM
g
is a mental and
reasoning process that leads to choose an ideal option from a
collection of possible alternatives in a DM
g
circumstance.
TOPSIS is a valuable method for MCDM issues in the real
world. Hwang and Yoon [1] first proposed this strategy in
1981, with Yoon continuing the process in 1987. TOPSIS
rates options and determines the best compromise between
them and the ideal solution. TOPSIS is an effective approach
for ranking and picking a number of generally recognized
alternatives using distance metrics that is both practical and
helpful. TOPSIS is the best compromise choice, having the
lowest distance from the positive-ideal solution and the
greatest distance from the negative-ideal solution [2–4]. So
far, TOPSIS has been thoroughly investigated by explorers
and experts, and it has been successfully applied to a wide
range of DM
g
situations [5–8].
e DM
g
procedure demands the analysis of a small
number of possibilities stated in terms of evaluative criteria
for the most part. Instead, when analyzing all of the criteria
at once, the issue may be to rank these possibilities in terms
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Mathematical Problems in Engineering
Volume 2022, Article ID 8442123, 9 pages
https://doi.org/10.1155/2022/8442123