An innovative fuzzy parameterized MADM approach to site selection for dam construction based on sv-complex neutrosophic hypersoft set

Abstract

<abstract><p>Dams are water reservoirs that provide adequate freshwater to residential, industrial, and mining sites. They are widely used to generate electricity, control flooding, and irrigate agricultural lands. Due to recent urbanization trends, industrialization, and climatic changes, the construction of dams is in dire need, which is planning intensive, quite expensive, and time-consuming. Moreover, finding an appropriate site to construct dams is also considered a challenging task for decision-makers. The dam site selection problem (DSSP) has already been considered a multi-criteria decision-making (MCDM) problem under uncertain (fuzzy set) environments by several researchers. However, they ignored some essential evaluating features (e.g., (a) fuzzy parameterized grades, which assess the vague nature of parameters and sub-parameters, (b) the hypersoft setting, which provides multi-argument-based domains for the approximation of alternatives, (c) the complex setting which tackles the periodicity of data, and (d) the single-valued neutrosophic setting which facilitates the decision makers to provide their opinions in three-dimensional aspects) that can be used in DSSP to make it more reliable and trustworthy. Thus this study aims to employ a robust fuzzy parameterized algebraic approach which starts with the characterization of a novel structure "fuzzy parameterized single valued complex neutrosophic hypersoft set ($ \tilde{\lambda} $-set)" that is competent to deal with the above-mentioned features jointly. After that, it integrates the concept of fuzzy parameterization, decision-makers opinions in terms of single-valued complex neutrosophic numbers, and the classical matrix theory to compute the score values for evaluating alternatives. Based on the stages of the proposed approach, an algorithm is proposed, which is further explained by an illustrative example in which DSSP is considered a multiple attributes decision-making (MADM) scenario. The computed score values are then used to evaluate some suitable sites (regions) for dam construction. The computational results of the proposed algorithm are found to be precise and consistent through their comparison with some already developed approaches.</p></abstract>