Modified TODIM-VIKOR method for triangular fuzzy neutrosophic multiple attribute decision making and applications to college counselors’ ability maturity evaluation of application-oriented UniversitiesModified TODIM-VIKOR method for triangular fuzzy neutrosophic multiple attribute...L. Gu, W. Yuan

To strengthen and improve the ideological and political education of college students in the new era, the team of counselors is the backbone and plays a crucial role. With the development of higher education in China, the number of college students is constantly increasing; The development of the Internet has, to a certain extent, made the living environment of students more complex and their ideological concepts diversified, which has brought new difficulties and challenges to the work of college counselors. Under the new situation, strengthening the research on the professional ability of college counselors is of great significance for the construction of the team of college counselors. The college counselors’ ability maturity evaluation is a multiple-attribute decision-making (MADM). Recently, the TODIM technique and VIKOR technique has been conducted to cope with MADM issues. The triangular fuzzy neutrosophic sets (TFNSs) are conducted as a useful technique for characterizing fuzzy decision information during the college counselors’ ability maturity evaluation. In this paper, the triangular fuzzy neutrosophic TODIM-VIKOR (TFN-TODIM-VIKOR) technique is put forward to solve the MADM under TFNSs. Finally, a numerical example for college counselors’ ability maturity evaluation is employed to validate the proposed TFN-TODIM-VIKOR technique. The main contribution of this paper is conducted: (1) the TODIM and VIKOR technique was extended to TFNSs; (2) Entropy technique is employed to manage the weight values under TFNSs. (3) the TFN-TODIM-VIKOR technique is founded to manage the MADM under TFNSs; (4) Algorithm analysis for college counselors’ ability maturity evaluation and comparison analysis are constructed based on one numerical example to verify the effectiveness of the TFN-TODIM-VIKOR technique.