This research is devoted to diagnosing water-borne infectious diseases caused by floods employing a novel diagnosis approach,the Einstein hybrid structure of q-rung orthopair fuzzy soft set.This approach integrates pa...This research is devoted to diagnosing water-borne infectious diseases caused by floods employing a novel diagnosis approach,the Einstein hybrid structure of q-rung orthopair fuzzy soft set.This approach integrates parts of fuzzy logic and soft set theory to develop a robust alternative for disease detection in stressful situations,especially in areas affected by floods.Compared to the traditional intuitionistic fuzzy soft set and Pythagorean fuzzy soft set,the q-rung orthopair fuzzy soft set(q-ROFSS)adequately incorporates unclear and indeterminate facts.The major objective of this investigation is to formulate the q-rung orthopair fuzzy soft Einstein hybrid weighted average(q-ROFSEHWA)operator and its specific characteristics.Moreover,our stated operator is implementing intelligentmulti-criteria group decision-making(MCGDM)methodology.Floods are severe natural catastrophes that raise the risk of diseases and epidemics,particularly those caused by contaminants in the water,such as gastrointestinal diseases,respiratory infections,vector-borne diseases,skin infections,and water-borne parasites.The designed MCGDM strategy tackles the prevalence of certain conditions in flood-affected patients.A comparative investigation determined that the suggested method for detecting water-borne infectious disease due to floods is more effective and productive than conventional methods because of its logical structure.展开更多
In this paper,a decision-making problem with a q-rung orthopair fuzzy hypersoft environment is developed,and two operators of ordered weighted average and induced ordered weighted average are developed.Several fundame...In this paper,a decision-making problem with a q-rung orthopair fuzzy hypersoft environment is developed,and two operators of ordered weighted average and induced ordered weighted average are developed.Several fundamental features are also derived.The induced ordered weighted average operator is essential in a q-ROFH environment as the induced ordered aggregation operators are special cases of the existing aggregation operators that already exist in q-ROFH environments.The main function of these operators is to help decision-makers gain a complete understanding of uncertain facts.The proposed aggregation operator is applied to a decision-making problem,with the aim of selecting the most promising real estate project for investment.展开更多
As the quantity of garbage created every day rises,solid waste management has become the world’s most important issue.As a result,improper solid waste disposal and major sanitary issues develop,which are only detecte...As the quantity of garbage created every day rises,solid waste management has become the world’s most important issue.As a result,improper solid waste disposal and major sanitary issues develop,which are only detected after they have become dangerous.Due to the system’s lockdown during the COVID-19 pandemic,this scenario became much more uncertain.We are at the stage to develop and execute effective waste management procedures,as well as long-term policies and forward-thinking programmes that can work even in the most adverse of scenarios.We incorporate major solid waste(organic and inorganic solid wastes)approaches that actually perform well in normal cases by reducing waste and environmental disasters;however,in such an uncertain scenario like the COVID-19 pandemic,the project automatically allows for a larger number of criteria,all of which are dealt with using fuzzy Multi-Criteria Group Decision Making(MCGDM)methods.The ELECTRE Ⅲ(ELimination Et Choice Translating REality-Ⅲ)approach,which is a novel decision-making strategy for determining the best way to dispose and reduce garbage by combining traditional ELECTRE Ⅲ with an interval-valued q-rung orthopair fuzzy set(IVq-ROFS),is described in detail in this article.To confirm the efficacy of the recommended model,a numerical explanation is provided,as well as sensitivity and comparative analyses.Obviously,the findings encourage decision-makers in authorities to deliberate about the proposals before creating solid waste management policies.展开更多
The objective of this paper is to present a new concept,named cubic q-rung orthopair fuzzy linguistic set(Cq-ROFLS),to quantify the uncertainty in the information.The proposed Cq-ROFLS is a qualitative form of cubic q...The objective of this paper is to present a new concept,named cubic q-rung orthopair fuzzy linguistic set(Cq-ROFLS),to quantify the uncertainty in the information.The proposed Cq-ROFLS is a qualitative form of cubic q-rung orthopair fuzzy set,where membership degrees and nonmembership degrees are represented in terms of linguistic variables.The basic notions of Cq-ROFLS have been introduced and study their basic operations and properties.Furthermore,to aggregate the different pairs of preferences,we introduce the Cq-ROFL Muirhead mean-(MM),weighted MM-,dual MM-based operators.The major advantage of considering the MM is that it considers the interrelationship between more than two arguments at a time.On the other hand,the Cq-ROFLS has the ability to describe the qualitative information in terms of linguistic variables.Several properties and relation of the derived operators are argued.In addition,we also investigate multiattribute decision-making problems under the Cq-ROFLS environment and illustrate with a numerical example.Finally,the effectiveness and advantages of the work are established by comparing with other methods.展开更多
As the generalization of intuitionistic fuzzy set(IFS) and Pythagorean fuzzy set(PFS),the q-rung orthopair fuzzy set(q-ROFS) has emerged as a more meaningful and effective tool to solve multiple attribute group decisi...As the generalization of intuitionistic fuzzy set(IFS) and Pythagorean fuzzy set(PFS),the q-rung orthopair fuzzy set(q-ROFS) has emerged as a more meaningful and effective tool to solve multiple attribute group decision making(MAGDM) problems in management and scientific domains.The MABAC(multi-attributive border approximation area comparison) model,which handles the complex and uncertain decision making issues by computing the distance between each alternative and the bored approximation area(BAA),has been investigated by an increasing number of researchers more recent years.In our article,consider the conventional MABAC model and some fundamental theories of q-rung orthopair fuzzy set(q-ROFS),we shall introduce the q-rung orthopair fuzzy MABAC model to solve MADM problems.at first,we briefly review some basic theories related to q-ROFS and conventional MABAC model.Furthermore,the q-rung orthopair fuzzy MABAC model is built and the decision making steps are described.In the end,An actual MADM application has been given to testify this new model and some comparisons between this novel MABAC modeL and two q-ROFNs aggregation operators are provided to further demonstrate the merits of the q-rung orthopair fuzzy MABAC model.展开更多
Because of the uncertainty and subjectivity of decision makers in the complex decision-making environment,the evaluation information of alternatives given by decision makers is often fuzzy and uncertain.As a generaliz...Because of the uncertainty and subjectivity of decision makers in the complex decision-making environment,the evaluation information of alternatives given by decision makers is often fuzzy and uncertain.As a generalization of intuitionistic fuzzy set(IFSs)and Pythagoras fuzzy set(PFSs),q-rung orthopair fuzzy set(q-ROFS)is more suitable for expressing fuzzy and uncertain information.But,in actual multiple attribute decision making(MADM)problems,the weights of DMs and attributes are always completely unknown or partly known,to date,the maximizing deviation method is a good tool to deal with such issues.Thus,combine the q-ROFS and conventional maximizing deviation method,we will study the maximizing deviation method under q-ROFSs and q-RIVOFSs in this paper.Firstly,we briefly introduce the basic concept of q-rung orthopair fuzzy sets(q-ROFSs)and q-rung interval-valued orthopair fuzzy sets(q-RIVOFSs).Then,combine the maximizing deviation method with q-rung orthopair fuzzy information,we establish two new decision making models.On this basis,the proposed models are applied to MADM problems with q-rung orthopair fuzzy information.Compared with existing methods,the effectiveness and superiority of the new model are analyzed.This method can effectively solve the MADM problem whose decision information is represented by q-rung orthopair fuzzy numbers(q-ROFNs)and whose attributes are incomplete.展开更多
With the frequent occurrences of emergency events,emergency decision making(EDM)plays an increasingly significant role in coping with such situations and has become an important and challenging research area in recent...With the frequent occurrences of emergency events,emergency decision making(EDM)plays an increasingly significant role in coping with such situations and has become an important and challenging research area in recent times.It is essential for decision makers to make reliable and reasonable emergency decisions within a short span of time,since inappropriate decisions may result in enormous economic losses and social disorder.To handle emergency effectively and quickly,this paper proposes a new EDM method based on the novel concept of q-rung orthopair fuzzy rough(q-ROPR)set.A novel list of q-ROFR aggregation information,detailed description of the fundamental characteristics of the developed aggregation operators and the q-ROFR entropy measure that determine the unknown weight information of decision makers as well as the criteria weights are specified.Further an algorithm is given to tackle the uncertain scenario in emergency to give reliable and reasonable emergency decisions.By using proposed list of q-ROFR aggregation information all emergency alternatives are ranked to get the optimal one.Besides this,the q-ROFR entropy measure method is used to determine criteria and experts’weights objectively in the EDM process.Finally,through an illustrative example of COVID-19 analysis is compared with existing EDM methods.The results verify the effectiveness and practicability of the proposed methodology.展开更多
During the COVID-19 outbreak,the use of single-use medical supplies increased significantly.It is essential to select suitable sites for establishing medical waste treatment stations.It is a big challenge to solve the...During the COVID-19 outbreak,the use of single-use medical supplies increased significantly.It is essential to select suitable sites for establishing medical waste treatment stations.It is a big challenge to solve the medical waste treatment station selection problem due to some conflicting factors.This paper proposes a multi-attribute decision-making(MADM)method based on the partitioned Maclaurin symmetric mean(PMSM)operator.For the medical waste treatment station selection problem,the factors or attributes(these two terms can be interchanged.)in the same clusters are closely related,and the attributes in different clusters have no relationships.The partitioned Maclaurin symmetric mean function(PMSMF)can handle these complex attribute relationships.Hence,we extend the PMSM operator to process the linguistic q-rung orthopair fuzzy numbers(Lq-ROFNs)and propose the linguistic q-rung orthopair fuzzy partitioned Maclaurin symmetric mean(Lq-ROFPMSM)operator and its weighted form(Lq-ROFWPMSM).To reduce the negative impact of unreasonable data on the final output results,we propose the linguistic q-rung orthopair fuzzy partitioned dual Maclaurin symmetric mean(Lq-ROFPDMSM)operator and its weighted form(Lq-ROFWPDMSM).We also discuss the characteristics and typical examples of the above operators.A novel MADM method uses the Lq-ROFWPMSM operator and the Lq-ROFWPDMSM operator to solve the medical waste treatment station selection problem.Finally,the usability and superiority of the proposed method are verified by comparing it with previous methods.展开更多
Purpose-The purpose of this paper is to develop the linguistic q-rung orthopair fuzzy set(LqROFS)information VIKOR method based on the bi-direction Choquet integral(BDCI),taking into account the correlation between in...Purpose-The purpose of this paper is to develop the linguistic q-rung orthopair fuzzy set(LqROFS)information VIKOR method based on the bi-direction Choquet integral(BDCI),taking into account the correlation between information.The method can enrich the existing studies related to LqROFS information and better solve the problem of MAGDM problem.Design/methodology/approach-Since applying Choquet integral(CI)depict information interaction is a common operation in MAGDM.However,the traditional CI has some limitations.The unidirectional alignment may affect the MAGDM results.Therefore,a LqROFS-VIKOR method based on BDCI is proposed,where BDCI is used to aggregate the decision matrix.Furthermore,it is not reasonable to apply exact numbers to express the similarity between two qualitative data.Then a new method of defining similarity using linguistics is proposed.The similarity is used to calculate attribute weights.Findings-The validity and potential application of MAGMD method with linguistic q-rung orthopair fuzzy information based on BDCI are demonstrated in a numerical examples study.Originality/value-According to the study of available literature,the current research on LqROFS is incomplete.The existing studies of both similarity and aggregate operators have certain shortcomings.The definition of similarity proposed in this paper is more in line with reality.And compared with the existing methods,the BDCI-based aggregate operator can describe the interaction between information more reasonably.Based on this VIKOR method based on BDCI under the LqROFS environment can better select the alternative.展开更多
Unlocking offshore wind farms’high energy generation potential requires a comprehensive multi-disciplinary analysis that consists of intensive technical,economic,logistical,and environmental investigations.Offshore w...Unlocking offshore wind farms’high energy generation potential requires a comprehensive multi-disciplinary analysis that consists of intensive technical,economic,logistical,and environmental investigations.Offshore wind energy projects have high investment volumes that make it essential to conduct extensive site selection to ensure feasible investment decisions that reduce the potential financial risks.Depending on the scenario and circumstances,a ranking of alternative offshore wind energy projects helps to prioritise the investment decisions.Decisionmaking algorithms based on expert knowledge can support the prioritisation and thus alleviate the work load for investment decisions in the future.The case study considered here is to find the best site for a floating offshore wind farm in Norway from four pre-selected alternatives:Utsira Nord,Stadthavet,Froyabanken,and Trana Vest.We propose a hybrid decisionmaking model as a combined compromised solution(CoCoSo)based on the q-rung orthopair fuzzy sets(q-ROFSs)including the weighted q-rung orthopair fuzzy Hamacher average(Wq-ROFHA)and the weighted q-rung orthopair fuzzy Hamacher geometric mean(Wq-ROFHGM)operators.In this model,the q-ROFSs based full consistency method(FUCOM)is introduced as a new methodology to determine the weights of the decision criteria.The results of the proposed model show that the best site among the investigated four alternatives is A1:Utsira Nord.A sensitivity analysis has verified the stability of the proposed decision-making model.展开更多
基金funded by King Saud University,Research Supporting Project Number(RSP2024R167),Riyadh,Saudi Arabia.
文摘This research is devoted to diagnosing water-borne infectious diseases caused by floods employing a novel diagnosis approach,the Einstein hybrid structure of q-rung orthopair fuzzy soft set.This approach integrates parts of fuzzy logic and soft set theory to develop a robust alternative for disease detection in stressful situations,especially in areas affected by floods.Compared to the traditional intuitionistic fuzzy soft set and Pythagorean fuzzy soft set,the q-rung orthopair fuzzy soft set(q-ROFSS)adequately incorporates unclear and indeterminate facts.The major objective of this investigation is to formulate the q-rung orthopair fuzzy soft Einstein hybrid weighted average(q-ROFSEHWA)operator and its specific characteristics.Moreover,our stated operator is implementing intelligentmulti-criteria group decision-making(MCGDM)methodology.Floods are severe natural catastrophes that raise the risk of diseases and epidemics,particularly those caused by contaminants in the water,such as gastrointestinal diseases,respiratory infections,vector-borne diseases,skin infections,and water-borne parasites.The designed MCGDM strategy tackles the prevalence of certain conditions in flood-affected patients.A comparative investigation determined that the suggested method for detecting water-borne infectious disease due to floods is more effective and productive than conventional methods because of its logical structure.
文摘In this paper,a decision-making problem with a q-rung orthopair fuzzy hypersoft environment is developed,and two operators of ordered weighted average and induced ordered weighted average are developed.Several fundamental features are also derived.The induced ordered weighted average operator is essential in a q-ROFH environment as the induced ordered aggregation operators are special cases of the existing aggregation operators that already exist in q-ROFH environments.The main function of these operators is to help decision-makers gain a complete understanding of uncertain facts.The proposed aggregation operator is applied to a decision-making problem,with the aim of selecting the most promising real estate project for investment.
基金supported by the National Research Foundation(NRF)of Korea Grant funded by the Korean Government(MSIT)(NRF-2020S1A5A8044635).
文摘As the quantity of garbage created every day rises,solid waste management has become the world’s most important issue.As a result,improper solid waste disposal and major sanitary issues develop,which are only detected after they have become dangerous.Due to the system’s lockdown during the COVID-19 pandemic,this scenario became much more uncertain.We are at the stage to develop and execute effective waste management procedures,as well as long-term policies and forward-thinking programmes that can work even in the most adverse of scenarios.We incorporate major solid waste(organic and inorganic solid wastes)approaches that actually perform well in normal cases by reducing waste and environmental disasters;however,in such an uncertain scenario like the COVID-19 pandemic,the project automatically allows for a larger number of criteria,all of which are dealt with using fuzzy Multi-Criteria Group Decision Making(MCGDM)methods.The ELECTRE Ⅲ(ELimination Et Choice Translating REality-Ⅲ)approach,which is a novel decision-making strategy for determining the best way to dispose and reduce garbage by combining traditional ELECTRE Ⅲ with an interval-valued q-rung orthopair fuzzy set(IVq-ROFS),is described in detail in this article.To confirm the efficacy of the recommended model,a numerical explanation is provided,as well as sensitivity and comparative analyses.Obviously,the findings encourage decision-makers in authorities to deliberate about the proposals before creating solid waste management policies.
文摘The objective of this paper is to present a new concept,named cubic q-rung orthopair fuzzy linguistic set(Cq-ROFLS),to quantify the uncertainty in the information.The proposed Cq-ROFLS is a qualitative form of cubic q-rung orthopair fuzzy set,where membership degrees and nonmembership degrees are represented in terms of linguistic variables.The basic notions of Cq-ROFLS have been introduced and study their basic operations and properties.Furthermore,to aggregate the different pairs of preferences,we introduce the Cq-ROFL Muirhead mean-(MM),weighted MM-,dual MM-based operators.The major advantage of considering the MM is that it considers the interrelationship between more than two arguments at a time.On the other hand,the Cq-ROFLS has the ability to describe the qualitative information in terms of linguistic variables.Several properties and relation of the derived operators are argued.In addition,we also investigate multiattribute decision-making problems under the Cq-ROFLS environment and illustrate with a numerical example.Finally,the effectiveness and advantages of the work are established by comparing with other methods.
基金supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China under Grant No.71571128the Humanities and Social Sciences Foundation of Ministry of Education of the People's Republic of China(No.14XJCZH002,15YJCZH138)。
文摘As the generalization of intuitionistic fuzzy set(IFS) and Pythagorean fuzzy set(PFS),the q-rung orthopair fuzzy set(q-ROFS) has emerged as a more meaningful and effective tool to solve multiple attribute group decision making(MAGDM) problems in management and scientific domains.The MABAC(multi-attributive border approximation area comparison) model,which handles the complex and uncertain decision making issues by computing the distance between each alternative and the bored approximation area(BAA),has been investigated by an increasing number of researchers more recent years.In our article,consider the conventional MABAC model and some fundamental theories of q-rung orthopair fuzzy set(q-ROFS),we shall introduce the q-rung orthopair fuzzy MABAC model to solve MADM problems.at first,we briefly review some basic theories related to q-ROFS and conventional MABAC model.Furthermore,the q-rung orthopair fuzzy MABAC model is built and the decision making steps are described.In the end,An actual MADM application has been given to testify this new model and some comparisons between this novel MABAC modeL and two q-ROFNs aggregation operators are provided to further demonstrate the merits of the q-rung orthopair fuzzy MABAC model.
基金supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China under Grant No.71571128the Humanities and Social Sciences Foundation of Ministry of Education of the People’s Republic of China(No.17XJA630003).
文摘Because of the uncertainty and subjectivity of decision makers in the complex decision-making environment,the evaluation information of alternatives given by decision makers is often fuzzy and uncertain.As a generalization of intuitionistic fuzzy set(IFSs)and Pythagoras fuzzy set(PFSs),q-rung orthopair fuzzy set(q-ROFS)is more suitable for expressing fuzzy and uncertain information.But,in actual multiple attribute decision making(MADM)problems,the weights of DMs and attributes are always completely unknown or partly known,to date,the maximizing deviation method is a good tool to deal with such issues.Thus,combine the q-ROFS and conventional maximizing deviation method,we will study the maximizing deviation method under q-ROFSs and q-RIVOFSs in this paper.Firstly,we briefly introduce the basic concept of q-rung orthopair fuzzy sets(q-ROFSs)and q-rung interval-valued orthopair fuzzy sets(q-RIVOFSs).Then,combine the maximizing deviation method with q-rung orthopair fuzzy information,we establish two new decision making models.On this basis,the proposed models are applied to MADM problems with q-rung orthopair fuzzy information.Compared with existing methods,the effectiveness and superiority of the new model are analyzed.This method can effectively solve the MADM problem whose decision information is represented by q-rung orthopair fuzzy numbers(q-ROFNs)and whose attributes are incomplete.
基金This Project was funded by the Deanship of Scientific Research(DSR),King Abdulaziz University,Jeddah,under the Grant No.(G:578-135-1441)The authors,therefore,acknowledge with thanks DSR for technical and financial support.
文摘With the frequent occurrences of emergency events,emergency decision making(EDM)plays an increasingly significant role in coping with such situations and has become an important and challenging research area in recent times.It is essential for decision makers to make reliable and reasonable emergency decisions within a short span of time,since inappropriate decisions may result in enormous economic losses and social disorder.To handle emergency effectively and quickly,this paper proposes a new EDM method based on the novel concept of q-rung orthopair fuzzy rough(q-ROPR)set.A novel list of q-ROFR aggregation information,detailed description of the fundamental characteristics of the developed aggregation operators and the q-ROFR entropy measure that determine the unknown weight information of decision makers as well as the criteria weights are specified.Further an algorithm is given to tackle the uncertain scenario in emergency to give reliable and reasonable emergency decisions.By using proposed list of q-ROFR aggregation information all emergency alternatives are ranked to get the optimal one.Besides this,the q-ROFR entropy measure method is used to determine criteria and experts’weights objectively in the EDM process.Finally,through an illustrative example of COVID-19 analysis is compared with existing EDM methods.The results verify the effectiveness and practicability of the proposed methodology.
基金This research work was supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China under Grant No.U1805263.
文摘During the COVID-19 outbreak,the use of single-use medical supplies increased significantly.It is essential to select suitable sites for establishing medical waste treatment stations.It is a big challenge to solve the medical waste treatment station selection problem due to some conflicting factors.This paper proposes a multi-attribute decision-making(MADM)method based on the partitioned Maclaurin symmetric mean(PMSM)operator.For the medical waste treatment station selection problem,the factors or attributes(these two terms can be interchanged.)in the same clusters are closely related,and the attributes in different clusters have no relationships.The partitioned Maclaurin symmetric mean function(PMSMF)can handle these complex attribute relationships.Hence,we extend the PMSM operator to process the linguistic q-rung orthopair fuzzy numbers(Lq-ROFNs)and propose the linguistic q-rung orthopair fuzzy partitioned Maclaurin symmetric mean(Lq-ROFPMSM)operator and its weighted form(Lq-ROFWPMSM).To reduce the negative impact of unreasonable data on the final output results,we propose the linguistic q-rung orthopair fuzzy partitioned dual Maclaurin symmetric mean(Lq-ROFPDMSM)operator and its weighted form(Lq-ROFWPDMSM).We also discuss the characteristics and typical examples of the above operators.A novel MADM method uses the Lq-ROFWPMSM operator and the Lq-ROFWPDMSM operator to solve the medical waste treatment station selection problem.Finally,the usability and superiority of the proposed method are verified by comparing it with previous methods.
基金This work was supported by the Science and Technology Innovation Special Fund Project of Fujian agriculture and Forestry University(No.CXZX2019121S)the Natural Science Foundation of Fujian Province(No.2020J01576)+1 种基金China Postdoctoral Science Foundation(No.2019M660242)the Science and Technology Innovation Special Fund Project of Fujian agriculture and Forestry University(No.CXZX2020110A).
文摘Purpose-The purpose of this paper is to develop the linguistic q-rung orthopair fuzzy set(LqROFS)information VIKOR method based on the bi-direction Choquet integral(BDCI),taking into account the correlation between information.The method can enrich the existing studies related to LqROFS information and better solve the problem of MAGDM problem.Design/methodology/approach-Since applying Choquet integral(CI)depict information interaction is a common operation in MAGDM.However,the traditional CI has some limitations.The unidirectional alignment may affect the MAGDM results.Therefore,a LqROFS-VIKOR method based on BDCI is proposed,where BDCI is used to aggregate the decision matrix.Furthermore,it is not reasonable to apply exact numbers to express the similarity between two qualitative data.Then a new method of defining similarity using linguistics is proposed.The similarity is used to calculate attribute weights.Findings-The validity and potential application of MAGMD method with linguistic q-rung orthopair fuzzy information based on BDCI are demonstrated in a numerical examples study.Originality/value-According to the study of available literature,the current research on LqROFS is incomplete.The existing studies of both similarity and aggregate operators have certain shortcomings.The definition of similarity proposed in this paper is more in line with reality.And compared with the existing methods,the BDCI-based aggregate operator can describe the interaction between information more reasonably.Based on this VIKOR method based on BDCI under the LqROFS environment can better select the alternative.
基金This work has been prepared as part of the Norwegian Research Centre on Wind Energy(NorthWind)and the project Research on Smart Operation Control Technologies for Offshore Wind Farms(CONWIND)NorthWind(2021-2029)is a Centre for Environmental-friendly Energy Research co-financed by the Research Council of Norway(contract 321954)CONWIND(2020-2022)is a Norwegian-Chinese collaboration project on offshore wind energy co-financed by the Research Council of Norway(contract 304229).
文摘Unlocking offshore wind farms’high energy generation potential requires a comprehensive multi-disciplinary analysis that consists of intensive technical,economic,logistical,and environmental investigations.Offshore wind energy projects have high investment volumes that make it essential to conduct extensive site selection to ensure feasible investment decisions that reduce the potential financial risks.Depending on the scenario and circumstances,a ranking of alternative offshore wind energy projects helps to prioritise the investment decisions.Decisionmaking algorithms based on expert knowledge can support the prioritisation and thus alleviate the work load for investment decisions in the future.The case study considered here is to find the best site for a floating offshore wind farm in Norway from four pre-selected alternatives:Utsira Nord,Stadthavet,Froyabanken,and Trana Vest.We propose a hybrid decisionmaking model as a combined compromised solution(CoCoSo)based on the q-rung orthopair fuzzy sets(q-ROFSs)including the weighted q-rung orthopair fuzzy Hamacher average(Wq-ROFHA)and the weighted q-rung orthopair fuzzy Hamacher geometric mean(Wq-ROFHGM)operators.In this model,the q-ROFSs based full consistency method(FUCOM)is introduced as a new methodology to determine the weights of the decision criteria.The results of the proposed model show that the best site among the investigated four alternatives is A1:Utsira Nord.A sensitivity analysis has verified the stability of the proposed decision-making model.