Novel Fermatean Fuzzy Bonferroni Mean aggregation operators for selecting optimal health care waste treatment technology

Abstract

Fermatean fuzzy set (FFS) is an expedient tool in today’s world for coping with uncertainty, ambiguity, and incompleteness that emerge in many decision-making processes. In light of the relevance of FFS, this work offers a Multi-Criteria Group Decision Making (MCGDM) method together with Bonferroni mean and weighted Bonferroni mean operators in FF environment. These operators consider the interdependencies between the parameters into account during aggregation process in group decision making. On the other hand, health care waste (HCW) is an unavoidable byproduct of healthcare institutions, and so HCW management is vital owing to its negative influence on public health and environment. In this study, the proposed FFMCGDM has been applied to determine the optimal HCW treatment technologies (TT) for assuring sustainable environmental development, considering six TTs as alternatives assessing against nine criteria. Moreover, the proposed approach has been illustrated through an empirical case study of many district hospitals in Tripura, India. The obtained results are compared to other two well-known MCDM techniques as well as existing Fermatean Fuzzy Aggregation Operators (FFAOs). A sensitivity analysis has also been carried out to examine the stability of the model. From the analysis, it has been found that the proposed technique is competitive to obtain the optimal HCW TT. For further validation of the proposed method, a well-known MCDM problem, namely Green Supplier Selection (GSS) has been modeled and solved.