This manuscript contributes a progressive mathematical model for the analysis of novel coronavirus (COVID-19) and improvement of the victim from COVID-19 with some suitable circumstances. We investigate the innovative approach of the m-polar neutrosophic set (MPNS) to deal with the hesitations and obscurities of objects and rational thinking in decision-making obstacles. In this article, we propose the generalized weighted aggregation and generalized Einstein weighted aggregation operators in the context of m-polar neutrosophic numbers (MPNNs). The motivational aim of this paper is that we present a case study based on data amalgamation for the diagnosis of COVID-19 and examine with the help of MPN-data. By using the proposed technique on generalized operators, we discuss the recovery of the victim with the time factor, proper medication, and some suitable circumstances. Ultimately, we present the advantages and productiveness of the proposed algorithm under the influence of parameter ð to the recovery results. The versatility and superiority of the proposed methodology with some existing approaches can be observed by the comparative analysis.
The COVID-19 has appeared as a deadly infection that has origins from China. The primary case was identified on December 31, 2019, in the city of Wuhan China, which is the capital of Hubei province. This fatal virus has taken the entire world into connections and multiple people have embraced death due to this insuperable virus. The name “coronavirus” comes from the Latin word “corona” which means a “crown, circle of light or nimbus”. This virus influences immediately to your lungs. It has comparable symptoms as influenza and pneumonia. In the beginning, various of those infected worked or shopped at a wholesale seafood market in Wuhan, China. After that it radiates universally through import, export, traveling, and social contacting of infected people. The Fig. 1 represents the world wide confirmed cases till 11th April 2020. Many researchers examined and established various techniques to deal with medical and decision-making obstacles. This manuscript proposes the most proficient technique for surviving from COVID-19, besides pharmaceutical medications. For this purpose, we investigated the MPNS, which was first discovered in 2020 by Hashmi et al. [16]. They preceded MPNS-topology and presented its applications in medical and clustering analysis. If we accumulate the data and conclude the decision without examining ambiguities, then given results will be boundless and obscure. For this purpose, a fuzzy set (FS) was established by Zadeh [44] in 1965 which is an imperative precise erection to epitomize an assembling of items whose boundary is ambiguous. After that, various hybrid models of FSs have been presented and investigated such as, intuitionistic fuzzy set (IFS) [5], single-valued neutrosophic set (SVNS) [31, 32], bipolar fuzzy set (BFS) [48–50], m-polar fuzzy set (MPFS) [9] and interval-valued fuzzy set (IVFS) [45]. The generality of the bipolar fuzzy set was originated by Chen [9] named as MPFS.
World wide confirmed cases COVID-19.
The multi-criteria decision-making (MCDM) method is a sub-field of operations research that explicitly estimates multiple adverse measures in decision-making, business, medicine, engineering, artificial intelligence, and daily life problems. It is perceived as the intellectual process which fallouts the selection of a belief or a class of activity among various alternative possibilities according to diverse standards. Aggregation implies the invention of a numeral of things into a cluster or a bunch of objects that have come or been taken together. In the past few years, aggregation operators based on FSs and its various hybrid compositions have made very much attention and become attractive because they can quickly execute functional areas of diverse regions. Xu et al. [38–40] introduced weighted averaging operators, geometric operators and induced generalized operators based on IFNs. Ashraf et al. [2–4] studied spherical fuzzy sets and established its various aggregation operators with applications in decision-making problems. Jose and Kuriaskose [17] investigated aggregation operators with the corresponding score function for MCDM in the context of IFNs. Mahmood et al. [20] established generalized aggregation operators for CHFNs and use it into MCDM.
Riaz and Hashmi [25–27] established cubic m-polar fuzzy aggregation operators and presented multi-attribute group decision-making (MAGDM) to solve agribusiness problems. They introduced the new concept of linear Diophantine fuzzy sets (LDFSs). They introduced the novel structures of Pythagorean m-polar fuzzy soft rough sets (PMPFSRSs) and soft rough Pythagorean m-polar fuzzy sets (SRPMPFSs). They presented new algorithms based on LDFSs, PMPFSRSs, and SRPMPFSs to solve decision-making problems. Riaz et al. [28–30] introduced N-soft topology, soft rough topology, cubic bipolar fuzzy ordered weighted geometric aggregation operators with their applications in multi-criteria group decision-making (MCGDM) problems.
Ali [1] write a note on soft, rough soft and fuzzy soft sets. Qurashi and Shabir [24] presented generalized approximations of (∈ , ∈ ∨ q)-fuzzy ideals in quantales. Shabir and Ali [33] established some properties of soft ideals and generalized fuzzy ideals in semigroups. Xueling et al. [36] introduced decision-making methods based on various hybrid soft sets. Feng et al. [11–13] introduced properties of soft sets combined with fuzzy and rough sets and MADM models in the environment of generalized IF soft set and fuzzy soft set. Garg [14, 15] established trigonometric operation based q-ROF aggregation and neutrality operation based Pythagorean Fuzzy aggregation operators with their applications in decision-making problems. Peng et al. [21–23] introduced information measures on Pythagorean fuzzy sets and q-ROFSs and their applications. Boran et al. [8] use TOPSIS decision-making method for the supplier selection in the context of IFS. Varol and Aygun [34] established various results on fuzzy soft topological space. Aygünoglu et al. [7] introduced some results on fuzzy soft topology. Liu et al. [18] worked on hesitant IF linguistic operators and presented its MAGDM problem. Li et al. [19] established Einstein aggregation operators by using simplified neutrosphic numbers and presented its application in the decision-making problem. Wei et al. [35] established hesitant triangular fuzzy operators in MADGDM problems. A book on HFS was established by Xu [37] with the concept of its various aggregation operations and MCDM. Ye [41–43] introduced prioritized aggregation operators in the context of IVHFS and worked on its MAGDM. He also established MCDM methods for interval neutrosophic sets and simplified neutrosophic sets. Zhang et al. [46] introduced aggregation operators with MCDM by using interval-valued FNS (IVFNS). An extended TOPSIS method for decision-making was developed by Chi and Lui [10] on IVFNS Zhao [47] et al. worked on generalized aggregation operators in the context of IFS. Aiwu et al. [6] constructed generalized aggregation operator for INFNS.
The motivation of this hybrid work is provided step by step in the entire manuscript. We discuss the efficiency, docility, integrity, and perfection of our proposed aggregation techniques. MPNS and its generalized aggregation operators utilize to accumulate information data at a comprehensive scale and efficiently applicable in medical, engineering, artificial intelligence, agriculture, and other daily life problems. Doctors are providing precautions and directions to counter novel COVID-19. They also working on the strategies to get cured of this infection. We use our proposed models to diagnose this disease and to examine the comprehensive medical history of the victim from infected to cured. The suggested techniques help the physicians to choose the most desirable treatment and medication for fast convergence to the recovery of the patient.
The layout of this article is organized as follows. In Section 2, we study some fascinating theories of FSs, MPFSs, neutrosophic sets, and MPNSs. We examine some of its operations, score function, and improved score function. In Section 3, we use MPNS to establish novel generalized weighted and generalized Einstein weighted aggregation operators. In Section 4, we establish a novel technique based on the medical diagnosis of COVID-19 using presented aggregated operators by the constructed algorithms. This modeling diagnoses the disease and also works on data collection and evaluation history of the patient’s improvement report. In the sequence, we make a brief comparative analysis of proposed operators with some existing techniques. We discuss the influence and sensitivity of parameter ð to the recovery graphs. Eventually, some future directions and conclusions of this analysis are summarized in Section 5.
Preliminaries
In this part, we examine some fundamental theories of fuzzy, neutrosophic, MPFSs and MPNSs. In the entire manuscript, we use as a universal or reference set. We use and as a membership grade, indeterminacy grade and non-membership grade for the alternatives respectively and Δ as an indexing set.
Definition 2.1. [44] A fuzzy set (FS) in can be scripted by a mapping , where σ (ς) for every , represents the membership grade of that object to which that element related to . Mathematically we can write it as;
Definition 2.2. [31] A neutrosophic set in is represented by using the degrees of membership , indeterminacy and non-membership . , and are elements of ] 0-, 1+ [ for the alternative ς. It can be scripted as
satisfying the constraint .
Definition 2.3. [9] An m-polar fuzzy set (MPFS) is generalized model of bipolar fuzzy set (BFS) ([48–50]). The mapping signifies the MPFS in and denoted by
where and Pα : [0, 1] m → [0, 1] is the α-th projection (α ∈ m).
Definition 2.4. [16] An object in is called MPNS, if it can be scripted as or where and
for α = 1, 2, 3, . . . , m. This constraint represents that all the three grades and are independent and signifies the positiveness, indeterminacy and negativeness of the alternative respectively under multi-polarity of the information. The assembling of all MPNSs in can be scripted as . The tabular representation of MPNS can be seen in Table 1.
MPNS
MPNNs
ς1
ς2
. . .
. . . . . . . . .
. . . . . . . . . . . .
The notion is said to be an m-polar neutrosophic number (MPNN) satisfying the constraint .
Definition 2.5. An empty MPNS can be scripted as
and absolute MPNS can be written as
Definition 2.6. [16] We studies some operations for MPNNs
and given as:
(i):
(ii): for
(iii):
(iv):
(v):
Example 2.7. Consider two 4PNNs and given in tabular form as Table 2. Now we evaluate the union and intersection of 4PNNs by using Definition 2.6 and results can be seen in tabular form as Table 3.
Definition 2.8. Sometimes, we use MPNNs to solve multi-attribute, multi-criteria and group decision-making problems. During the formation of diverse algorithms, we get the optimized resolutions and we need to order the concerned MPNNs to perceive the most beneficial and relevant judgment. For this purpose, we have to define some score functions corresponding to MPNN
given as:
where .
where . After utilizing the established score functions there must be a possibility when the score of two MPNNs has the same result numerically. To manipulate this situation, we adopt another improved score function for ranking of MPNNs scripted as
where . In some cases when then reduces to .
Definition 2.9. [16] Let and be two MPNNs, then by using score function we can define an order relation between these MPNNs given as:
(a): If then .
(b): If then
(1): If then .
(2): If then
(i): If then .
(ii): If then .
(iii): If then .
Example 2.10. Consider two 2PNNs and given in Table 4.
By Definition 2.8 . Similarly, . This shows that £1 fails. Now we will go towards £2. This implies that . This shows that £2 also fails. Now we will use improved score function for the ranking. After calculations, we get and . Hence , so .
Remark.
•For null MPNN we have .
•For absolute MPNN we have .
Definition 2.11. [16] Let be an arbitrary MPNN and be an assembling of MPNNs, then we can define some operations on MPNNs with an arbitrary real number δ > 0 given as follows:
.
.
.
.
Remark. and are also MPNNs.
Generalized aggregation operators
In this section, we establish m-polar neutrosophic generalized weighted aggregation (MPNGWA) and m-polar neutrosophic generalized Einstein weighted aggregation (MPNGEWA) operators. We present some special cases of established operators for different values of parameter ð.
Definition 3.1. Let ℧ be an assembling of MPNNs , and is the weight vector of such that ζ℘ > 0 with . Then m-polar neutrosophic generalized weighted aggregation operator is a mapping and defined as follows:
Where ð is a parameter an it represents the behavior or attitude of decision makers in decision-making problems. The smaller value of ð shows the conservative behavior of decision makers and larger value of ð represents the optimistic attitude. We can relate this parameter to different behaviors or properties according to the situation appears in problem.
Now we establish some new operators from MPNGWA operator for different values of parameter ð.
When ð→0 then MPNGWA operator reduces to m-polar neutrosophic weighted geometric aggregation (MPNWGA) operator defined as:
When ð=1 then MPNGWA operator reduces to m-polar neutrosophic weighted arithmetic aggregation (MPNWAA) operator defined as:
Let . When the value of is at its minimum value. Therefore, MPNWGA operator is the better approximation than others.
Example 3.2. Consider three 3PNNs and with ζ = (0.3, 0.4, 0.3) T as . In tabular form 3PNNs can be represented as Table 5. Then for ð=1, we have
Then by using equation (C) we get .
2PNNs
2PNNs
Numeric values of 2PNNs
(〈0.5, 0.3, 0.4〉, 〈0.5, 0.1, 0.8〉)
(〈0.2, 0.3, 0.1〉, 〈0.2, 0.1, 0.5〉)
m-polar neutrosophic generalized einstein weighted aggregation (MPNGEWA) operator
There exists some limitations in the defined operations of MPNNs. In general sense, the sum of any number with the maximal number is equal to maximal value and the multiplication of minimal number to any number is equal to the any one. But our defined operations contradict these rules in general. For example, , and are three 2PNNs. It is clear that is greater number as an absolute 2PNN. By using the ring sum operation on and with ring multiplication on and we get
This example shows that the defined operations are irrational. Due to this fact, we define some novel operations of MPNNs in this manuscript and establish some novel aggregation operators by using the new operations. We use “strict Archimedean t-norm” and “strict Archimedean t-conorm” for developing these operations. Both are given as
where β (π) = η (1 - π). The Einstein t-conorm and t-norm can be scripted as
where . By using this idea we define some new operations for MPNNs. Let and be MPNNs, then for δ > 0, some new operations based on Einstein operators can be scripted as
Now by using the modified operations we solve the above example and we get that
This shows that we can remove the irrationality by using the new operations. These operations give us the better convergence in optimization techniques and decision-making problems.
Definition 3.3. Let ℧ be an assembling of MPNNs , and is the weight vector of such that ζ℘ > 0 with . Then m-polar neutrosophic generalized Einstein weighted aggregation (MPNGEWA) operator is a mapping and defined as follows:
Where ð is the parameter and it represents the behavior or attitude of decision makers in decision-making problems. The smaller value of ð shows the conservative behavior of decision makers and larger value of ð represents the optimistic attitude. We can relate this parameter to different behaviors or properties according to the situation appears in problem. where
The proof can be easily done by using mathematical induction as given in [19] for generalize simplified neutrosophic number Einstein weighted aggregation operator.
Properties and special cases of MPNGEWA operator
The MPNGEWA operator has the following properties.
Idempotency: Let , ..., be an assembling of MPNNs and be an MPNN. If , then .
Commutativity: Let , ..., be an assembling of MPNNs. If is arbitrary permutation of , then
.
Boundedness: Let , ..., , , ..., and , , ..., be three assembling of MPNNs. If for all ℘ and and then
Monotonicity: Let ,..., and , ..., be two assembling of MPNNs. If , then
Now we discuss some cases of MPNGEWA operator based on the parameter ð.
When ð=1 then MPNGEWA operator reduces to the m-polar neutrosophic Einstein weighted average (MPNEWA) operator. Therefore,
So, MPNEWA operator for can be written as follows:
When ð = -1 then MPNGEWA operator reduces to the m-polar neutrosophic Einstein weighted harmonic average (MPNEWHA) operator. Therefore,
So, MPNEWA operator can be written as follows:
When ð→0 then MPNGEWA operator reduces to the m-polar neutrosophic Einstein weighted geometric average (MPNEWGA) operator for and given as follows:
Example 3.4. Consider that we have three 3PNNs given as Table 6. For the weight vector ζ = (0.3, 0.4, 0.3) T and parameter ð=1, we calculate the aggregated value by using MPNGEWA operator for . .
Thus by using equation (Z) of MPNGEWA operator for we obtain
Multi-criteria decision-making for diagnosis of COVID-19
In this section, we present an innovative technique to diagnose the COVID-19 of a patient by using Mathematical modeling through proposed aggregation operators. With the help of parameter ð, we can examine the comprehensive medical history of the victim from infected to cured. The suggested techniques help the physicians to choose the most desirable treatment and medication for fast convergence to the recovery of the patient.
Proposed technique
In this part of our manuscript, we establish the techniques of MPNGWA and MPNGEWA operators to detect the disease of the patient in the environment of MPN-data.
Input:
Step 1: The following be the assembling of alternatives and be the collection of attributes or criteria. The weighted vector according to the choice of decision-maker is given by with the condition . We further assume that , for and be an assembling of decision matrix provided by experts or decision-maker, where each be a MPNN.
Step 2: In business term we mostly consider two main attribute terms including, benefit and cost. In MCDM the greatest value of benefit attribute and lower value of cost attribute leads us to success. The value of loss attribute case can be converted into value of benefit attribute by normalizing the input data . It is necessary to normalize the input information before further calculations to obtain the best and precise solutions. Therefore the MPN evaluation can be normalized by
where represents the complement of MPNNs. If the type is same for all attributes, then there is no need to normalize the information.
Calculations:
Step 3(a): Compute the aggregated values of alternatives corresponding to the different criteria by using MPNGWA operator given in equation (A) for different values of parameter ð and hence the evaluated aggregated values are given by .
Step 3(b): Compute the aggregated values of alternatives corresponding to the different criteria by using MPNGEWA operator given in equation (Z) for different values of parameter ð and hence the evaluated aggregated values are given by .
Output:
Step 4: Using calculate score values by using Definition 2.8.
Step 5: We rank these alternative on the basis of score values according to the Definition 2.9.
Step 6: Choose the alternative with the maximum score calculated through the purposed method.
The flow chart diagram of proposed algorithm can be seen in Fig. 2.
Flow chart diagram of proposed algorithms to diagnose COVID-19.
Algorithm 1 Algorithm to diagnose COVID-19 using MPNGWA operator
1: procedure ApplyMPNGWA
2: Input: collection of input MPN-data in decision matrix of patient’s disease given by doctor/consultant.
3: Output: collection of input MPN-data after normalizing.
4: for ℘=1 to
5: for to
6: if is an entry in cost attribute then
7:
8: else
9:
10: end if
11: end for
12: end for
13: for ℘=1 to
14: for ℘′=1 to
15: for ð=1 to 10000
16:
17: end for
18: end for
19: end for
20: for ℘′=1 to
21: Compute
22: end for
23: Rank the alternatives
24: end procedure
Case study
For a short time interval, the contagious disease which spread instantly among the inhabitants is called epidemic disease. There are diverse epidemic models for infectious diseases, but we argue here about the SIR model for the given decision-making problem. The SIR model is a mathematical model of infectious diseases, where we have three compartments given as;
S= “Susceptible”,
I= “Infected or infectious”,
R= “Recover or removed”.
For the development of such types of models, we develop some hypotheses according to the model and circumstances. We are working for the diagnosis, so we consider a very simple and fundamental model with no death and birth rates given in Fig. 3. The variation in the population of every compartment with the rates b and r can be seen graphically as Fig. 4. We can add death and birth rates to the SIR model for further modification. From the last year, the epidemic disease named as coronavirus (COVID-19) has been spreading very fast among the humans. This effects directly to your lungs. It has similar symptoms as influenza and pneumonia. The X-ray images of infected persons are given in Figs. 5 and 6. “In Fig. 5 represents the chest CT images of a 29-year-old man with fever for 6 days. RT-PCR assay for the SARS-CoV-2 using a swab sample was performed on Feb. 5, 2020, with a positive result. (A column) Normal chest CT with axial and coronal planes was obtained at the onset. (B column) Chest CT with axial and coronal planes shows minimal ground-glass opacities in the bilateral lower lung lobes (yellow arrows). (C column) Chest CT with axial and coronal planes shows increased ground-glass opacities (yellow arrowheads). (D column) Chest CT with axial and coronal planes shows the progression of pneumonia with mixed ground-glass opacities and linear opacities in the subpleural area. (E column) Chest CT with axial and coronal planes shows the absorption of both ground-glass opacities and organizing pneumonia”.
Algorithm 2 Algorithm to diagnose COVID-19 using MPNGEWA operator
1: procedure ApplyMPNGEWA
2: Input: collection of input MPN-data in decision matrix of patient’s disease given by doctor/consultant.
3: Output: collection of input MPN-data after normalizing.
4: for ℘=1 to
5: for ℘′=1 to
6: if is an entry in cost attribute then
7:
8: else
9:
10: end if
11: end for
12: end for
13: for ℘=1 to
14: for ℘′=1 to
15: for ð=1 to 10000
16:
17: end for
18: end for
19: end for
20: for ℘′=1 to
21: Compute
22: end for
23: rank the alternatives
24: end procedure
SIR model for epidemic diseases.
Graphical representation of SIR model.
This virus banquets predominantly through discharge from the nose or droplets of saliva when a disease-ridden person sneezes or coughs. Patients suffering from COVID-19 usually experience mild to the severe respiratory issue. Other key warning signs may consist of high-grade fever (usually more than 100 F) or chills, cough, vomiting, and shortness of breath. These symptoms may appear from 2 days to a couple of weeks after exposure. There may be some other symptoms like tiredness, runny nose, aches, and sore throat. The deadly virus has not only taken the lives of a number of people but also has shattered the economy of most established and developed countries. The Fig. 7 represents the global increase in reported COVID-19 cases. According to statistics, the death rate of individuals of age 80+ is 21.9% due to COVID-19 (confirmed cases) as compared to a overall death rate of 14.8% in all cases among the same age group. Moreover, the death rate among males is 4.7% whereas in females is 2.8% out of confirmed cases of COVID-19. The graph of worldwide death rate (till 11th April 2020) due to COVID-19 is portrayed in Fig. 8.
Chest CT images of infected person with coronavirus.
Four COVID-19 lung CT scans (top) with corresponding colored maps showing coronavirus abnormalities (bottom). Source:hospitals-deploy-ai-tools-detect-covid19-chest-scans.
Global increase in reported COVID-19 cases.
Worldwide death rate due to COVID-19.
Numerical example
A man visits a doctor and told him about his health problems which he was facing for the last three days. He stated that he was suffering from a cough and high fever. He mentions that he has a runny nose with a sore throat. He also feels muscle pain with a headache. Granting to the doctor all the symptoms lead to three diseases coronavirus, influenza, and pneumonia. It is challenging for a physician to diagnose the exact disease of this patient without any medical test because on that point is an overlapping between the symptoms of above-named diseases. We present two novel algorithms with new models of MPNGWA and MPNGEWA operators to diagnose the disease of the patient and we also discuss the recovery of the patient.
Mathematical modeling: For the given case study we have a set of alternatives consists of three diseases and six symptoms according to the patient given as
where,
Influenza
Coronavirus
Pneumonia
Cough
Headache
Runny nose
Muscle pain
Sore throat
High fever.
Granting to the patient’s description, the doctor can place a weighted vector ζ = (0.2, 0.1, 0.1, 0.1, 0.2, 0.3) T according to the diseases and symptoms. This vector is selected by using Table refdata set. We choose , which shows that for input we take the data of last days. Now we input 3PN-data for the set of diseases and symptoms. This input data can be constructed with the help of an expert by converting the verbal information into Mathematical language. Experts must know to relate the physical conditions into mathematical terms and fuzzy logic. The tabular form of input data is given as Table 8.
3PN-data
Order
3PNNs
Numeric values of 3PNNs
1
2
3
4
5
6
1
2
3
4
5
6
1
2
3
4
5
6
Data set for appearing symptoms
Appearing symptom
Mild or Low
Moderate
Severe
Cough
0 ≤ ς < 0.1
0.1 ≤ ς < 0.2
0.2 ≤ ς ≤ 1
Headache
0 ≤ ς < 0.1
0.1 ≤ ς < 0.2
0.2 ≤ ς ≤ 1
Runny nose
0 ≤ ς < 0.1
0.1 ≤ ς < 0.2
0.2 ≤ ς ≤ 1
Muscle pain
0 ≤ ς < 0.1
0.1 ≤ ς < 0.2
0.2 ≤ ς ≤ 1
Sore Throat
0 ≤ ς < 0.1
0.1 ≤ ς < 0.2
0.2 ≤ ς ≤ 1
High fever
0 ≤ ς < 0.1
0.1 ≤ ς < 0.2
0.2 ≤ ς ≤ 1
Calculations by using MPNGWA operator:
Then by using 3PNGWA operator from equation (A) over the input data for ð=1 (equivalent to 3PNWAA operator from equation (C)) we get, .
We use improved score function £3 to calculate score values because it gives better and accurate results as compared to £1 and £2. Hence the score values of above aggregated 3PNNs can be obtained by using Definition 2.8 given as, . These score values shows that
Which shows that patient should get serious about his health, because he is suffering from COVID-19. This ranking can be seen graphically as Fig. 9.
Ranking of 3PNNs and .
Calculations by using MPNGEWA operator:
Then by using 3PNGEWA operator from equation (Z) over the input data for ð=1 (equivalent to 3PNEWA operator from equation (Z*)) we get, .
We use improved score function £3 to calculate score values because it gives better an accurate results as compared to £1 and £2. Hence the score values of above aggregated 3PNNs can be obtained by using Definition 2.8 given as,
. These score values shows that
Which shows that patient should get serious about his health, because he is suffering from COVID-19.
The Influence and Sensitivity of Parameter ð:
We calculate the aggregated 3PNNs for different values of parameter ð from the input 3PN-data under 3PNGWA and 3PNEGWA operators. The behavior of both operators can be observed from Tables 9 and 10 under the effect of parameter ð. The parameter ð has no consequence on the ranking results of MPNGWA and MPNEGWA operators. This signifies that the obtained ranking results from both operators are not sensitive to the parameter ð. For a very large value of parameter ð every aggregated MPNN approaches to null MPNN. This represents that there will be no variations in the process and results remains constant. The answers show that both operators are more elastic and desirable for the MCDM problems. The ranking results of MPNNs for both operators can be graphically represented as Figs. 10 and 11.
Ranking under the MPNGWA operator for different values of ð
ð
Type of operator
Ranking order
Result
→0
MPNWGA
0.3164, 0.5731, - 0.1527
0.1
MPNGWA
0.3781, 0.5911, - 0.1097
0.3
MPNGWA
0.3804, 0.5914, - 0.1063
0.5
MPNGWA
0.3826, 0.5918, - 0.1028
1
MPNWAA
0.3883, 0.5928, - 0.0934
1.5
MPNGWA
0.3940, 0.5937, - 0.0833
2
MPNGWA
0.3996, 0.5948, - 0.0727
5
MPNGWA
0.4304, 0.6012, - 0.0097
10
MPNGWA
0.4697, 0.6126, 0.0658
15
MPNGWA
0.4974, 0.6235, 0.1114
17
MPNGWA
0.5061, 0.6275, 0.1246
20
MPNGWA
0.5172, 0.6330, 0.1407
Ranking under the MPNGEWA operator for different values of ð
ð
Type of operator
Ranking order
Result
→0
MPNEWGA
0.4000, 0.5900, - 0.1000
0.1
MPNGEWA
0.3737, 0.5918, - 0.1109
0.3
MPNGEWA
0.3726, 0.5915, - 0.1118
0.5
MPNGEWA
0.3721, 0.5914, - 0.1116
1
MPNEWAA
0.3736, 0.5912, - 0.1053
1.5
MPNGEWA
0.3787, 0.5914, - 0.0925
2
MPNGEWA
0.3861, 0.5920, - 0.0758
5
MPNGEWA
0.4387, 0.6025, - 0.0194
10
MPNGEWA
0.4957, 0.6248, 0.1058
15
MPNGEWA
0.5258, 0.6413, 0.1488
17
MPNGEWA
0.5342, 0.6463, 0.1603
20
MPNGEWA
0.5444, 0.6526, 0.1738
Ranking of MPFNNs for MPNGWA operator.
Ranking of MPFNNs for MPNGEWA operator.
Convergence in recovery of the patient
All the previous process shows that how to diagnose the disease of a patient with mathematical modeling under the environment of MPN-data. In this subsection, we use above modeling to determine that how much time and factors are postulated for a patient to recuperate from that disease. From above discussion, we know that decision goes for COVID-19. Till to date, there are no explicit serums or treatments for COVID-19. Though, there are several ongoing clinical trials assessing latent treatments. The “strategic plan for management of COVID-19 in paediatric haematology and oncology departments”is given in Fig. 12.
Strategic plan for management of COVID-19 in paediatric haematology and oncology departments.
For initial and smaller values of parameter ð in proposed operators, we see the performance of aggregated MPNN and its score value for both operators. It is clear from the calculations (see Tables 11 and 12) and graphical representation (see Graphs 13 and 14) that initially its score valued increases means that disease is uncured and the patient is infected and its infection is increasing day by day. After diagnosis, the Doctor starts his treatment, according to the necessary medication and some preventions. The patient used those suggested medicines and stick with his complete diet plan with necessary precautions. Then by increasing the time period, his infection reduces and score values decrease for the larger values of the parameter. We relate the parameter ð with the time and treatment, so as to ð increases all the aggregated values go to null MPNNs for both operators. This proves that the patient is recovering from COVID-19. After just about a specific time and treatment score value goes to the minimum which is -1 and after that, no changes occur in score value with the changing of the parameter. This stands for that patient is entirely cured and it moves towards the recovering population from the infected population. The graphical views clearly express all the history of patient disease from start to end (see Figs. 13 and 14). Starting values show that he is infected and diagnosed with COVID-19. After diagnosis and treatment with the passage of time he gets cured of COVID-19 and last values show that he runs to the box of recovered population and he is nowadays out of peril. This mathematical modeling helps us to examine the perfect story of a patient from infected to regain. This mannequin can be offered for various diseases and for a great number of patients. Our proposed model is a more abstracted form of fuzzy set and utilizes to diagnose disease, development of patient’s history and gather data at a very big plate.
Results depending on ð for Recovery of patient via MPNGWA operator
ð
Score values
ð
Score values
ð
Score values
ð
Score values
ð
Score values
→0
0.5731
20
0.6330
136
0.6897
260
0.4755
1000
-0.5105
0.1
0.5911
25
0.6411
137
0.6900
270
0.2760
1100
-0.5104
0.3
0.5914
30
0.6479
138
0.6250
275
0.2763
1150
-0.5104
0.5
0.5918
40
0.6583
139
0.6254
280
0.11276311
1190
-0.5102
1
0.5928
50
0.6658
140
0.6250
285
-0.0159
1192
-0.5102
2
0.5748
70
0.6757
150
0.5577
300
-0.0158
1193
- 1
5
0.6012
100
0.6841
160
0.5582
400
-0.0398
1200
-1
10
0.6126
120
0.6876
180
0.5587
500
-0.5109
1500
-1
15
0.6235
130
0.6891
200
0.4849
700
-0.5107
5000
-1
17
0.6275
135
0.6892
250
0.4852
900
-0.5105
10000
-1
Results depending on ð for Recovery of patient via MPNEGWA operator
ð
Score values
ð
Score values
ð
Score values
ð
Score values
ð
Score values
→0
0.5900
20
0.6526
136
0.4851
260
-0.5109
615
-0.5104
0.1
0.5918
25
0.6608
137
0.4853
270
-0.5109
616
-0.5102
0.3
0.5915
30
0.6669
138
0.4851
275
-0.5108
617
- 1
0.5
0.5914
40
0.6754
139
0.4852
280
-0.5108
618
-1
1
0.5912
50
0.6810
140
0.4753
285
-0.5108
619
-1
2
0.5920
70
0.6879
150
0.2760
300
-0.5108
620
-1
5
0.6025
100
0.5590
160
-0.0158
400
-0.5106
700
-1
10
0.6248
120
0.4850
180
-0.0402
500
-0.5105
1000
-1
15
0.6413
130
0.4851
200
-0.0400
600
-0.5102
5000
-1
17
0.6463
135
0.4852
250
-0.5109
610
-0.5104
10000
-1
Recovery graph of patient from COVID-19 via MPNGWA operator.
Recovery graph of patient from COVID-19 via MPNEGWA operator.
Comparison of MPNGWA and MPNGEWA operators
Both operators can give the appropriate and fast optimal solution as compared to the existing techniques. The convergence to the recovery of the patient can be observed by increasing the values of parameter ð. We relate the parameter ð with the time and treatment, so as to ð increases all the aggregated values go to null MPNNs for both operators. If we compare the results of both operators under the effect of different values of parameter ð from Tables 11 and 12, then we observe that both converge to value -1. The MPNGEWA operator is most suitable and gives faster convergence to the recovery of the patient as compared to the MPNGWA operator. In Table 11 we can see that MPNGWA operator converge the recovery value -1 at ð=1193. In Table 12 we can see that MPNGEWA operator converge the recovery value -1 at ð=617. This analysis shows that if we treat the patients (medication, visits, diet chart, etc) by using MPNGEWA operator then we can get the fast recovery as compared to other operators.
Comparison Analysis and Discussion:
In our proposed research, we defined generalized aggregated and generalized Einstein aggregated operators by using the advanced concept of MPNNs. The impressive point of this model is that we can use it for mathematical modeling at a large scale or numbers of degrees with its satisfaction, indeterminacy and dissatisfaction grades. These -degrees basically show the corresponding properties or any set criteria about the alternative ψ. As in the given problem, we use it for means we analyze data of the patient for the last three days. We can extend this period according to our requirements. This can be taken as for the different types of criteria which are not possible to use for other approaches in a whole model like FSs, IFSs, neutrosophic sets, etc. This item proves that it is a hybrid and generalized model and gives better results as compared to other approaches. Other sets such as FSs, m-polar intuitionistic fuzzy sets (MPIFSs), MPFSs and interval-valued m-polar fuzzy sets (IVMPFSs) become the special case of MPNS with the addition of some suitable conditions. On the same form, all the operators corresponding to the given sets become the particular cases of our proposed operators for MPNNs.
From Table 13, we can ensure that results obtained from different aggregation operators are similar to the proposed method. These results affirm that our proposed algorithm is authentic and correct. The final optimal decision is the same, but we get a slight difference between the overall ranking of the alternatives. This difference appears due to the different formulation and different algorithms for different aggregation operators. But the question turns out here that if we bring these resolutions from other operators, then why we need to specify a novel algorithm based on this novel structure? There are many arguments that show that the proposed operator is modified and generalized form others. Foremost of all we understand that due to the behavior of parameter ð we can as well examine the recovery of the patient and its complete graph history from beginning to end. But other operators such as IVIFWA [17] and IFWA, IFWG [38, 39] only diagnose the disease, but not covers the convergence of recovery of patients. Secondly, when we are dealing with [6, 47] operators then we face difficulties to collect the input data for all three weeks of the patient and observe no flexibility to deal with the various numbers of criteria with truth, falsity and indeterminacy degrees and all these ingredients make the calculations very difficult. Only when we are handling the data with MPNNs, then due to criteria and hybrid property of our model, we deal easily with the input and output information and ensure the recovery convergence graph of the patient. Comparative analysis showed that this modified operator can easily deal with the real-life glitches and MCDM problems and check the properties of flexibility, simplicity, and superiority to others.
In this manuscript, we have investigated MPNS and its various operations with scores and improved score functions. The generalized weighted aggregated and generalized Einstein weighted aggregated operators have been found by using the MPN operations. In the late years, many aggregation operators corresponding to numerous hybrid fuzzy sets have been instituted to deal with the MCDM problems. We have developed some hybrid generalized weighted aggregation operators based on MPNNs and use them into MCDM for medical diagnosis of COVID-19. We have calculated the aggregated results for different values of parameter ð=1 - 10, 000 and found the recovery results for the patients from COVID-19. Comparative analysis showed that these modified operators can easily solve real-life obstacles and decision-making problems. We can use them to collect information on a large scale for criteria. There is a slight difference between the conclusion of different operators due to their setting up strategies and calculations but mostly conclude the same result. This approach is more efficient and feasible as compared to other approaches, (see Table 13) because this is based on the generalized set.
In the future, this work can be gone easily for other approaches and different types of manipulators to solve problems of real-world including business, trade, medical, environmental sciences, social sciences, transportation analysis, pattern recognition, economics, human resource management, artificial intelligence, robotics, and many other areas. We will extend this work for MCDM optimization techniques such as TOPSIS, VIKOR, AHP and, PROMETHEE family. Researchers will get beneficial results by exploring and investigating these concepts in the field of MCDM by using numerous aggregation operators.
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