Medical Waste Treatment Station Selection Based on Linguistic q-Rung Orthopair Fuzzy Numbers

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.

A comparative survey of SSVEP recognition algorithms based on template matching of training trials

Purpose-Steady-state visual evoked potential(SSVEP)has been widely used in the application of electroencephalogram(EEG)based non-invasive brain computer interface(BCI)due to its characteristics of high accuracy and information transfer rate(ITR).To recognize the SSVEP components in collected EEG trials,a lot of recognition algorithms based on template matching of training trials have been proposed and applied in recent years.In this paper,a comparative survey of SSVEP recognition algorithms based on template matching of training trails has been done.Design/methodology/approach-To survey and compare the recently proposed recognition algorithms for SSVEP,this paper regarded the conventional canonical correlated analysis(CCA)as the baseline,and selected individual template CCA(ITCCA),multi-set CCA(MsetCCA),task related component analysis(TRCA),latent common source extraction(LCSE)and a sum of squared correlation(SSCOR)for comparison.Findings-For the horizontal comparative of the six surveyed recognition algorithms,this paper adopted the“Tsinghua JFPM-SSVEP”data set and compared the average recognition performance on such data set.The comparative contents including:recognition accuracy,ITR,correlated coefficient and R-square values under different time duration of the SSVEP stimulus presentation.Based on the optimal time duration of stimulus presentation,the author has also compared the efficiency of the six compared algorithms.To measure the influence of different parameters,the number of training trials,the number of electrodes and the usage of filter bank preprocessing were compared in the ablation study.Originality/value-Based on the comparative results,this paper analyzed the advantages and disadvantages of the six compared SSVEP recognition algorithms by considering application scenes,realtime and computational complexity.Finally,the author gives the algorithms selection range for the recognition of real-world online SSVEP-BCI.