Neutrosophic soft metric matrices with applications in decision-making

Document Type : Original Article

Authors

1 Department of Mathematics COMSATS University Islamabad, Abbottabad Campus, Pakistan

2 COMSATS University Islamabad

3 Department of Mathematics COMSATS University Islamabad, Islamabad Campus, Pakistan

Abstract

In this paper, we introduce neutrosophic soft metric matrices and define some new operations on these matrices. Moreover, we develop an algorithm using neutrosophic soft metric matrices and apply it to a decision-making problem.

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