A NOVEL RISK RANKING METHOD BASED ON THE SINGLE VALUED NEUTROSOPHIC SET

Risk assessment is a key issue in the process of product design and manufacturing. Traditionally risk assessment uses the risk priority number (RPN) method to rank the extent of a threat. However, this simultaneously includes quantitative and qualitative evaluation factors in the process of risk assessment. Moreover, the information provided by different experts for evaluation factors contain ambiguous, incomplete and inconsistent information. These problems lead to more difficulty for risk assessment, and cannot be effectively solved by the traditional RPN method. To solve some limits of the traditional risk analysis method, this paper integrates the single valued neutrosophic set and subsethood measure method to rank the extent of the threat. For missing or incomplete information in the information aggregation process, the minimum, averaging and maximum operators are used to perform data imputation to avoid the distortion of decision results. Finally, a numerical example of high-dose-rate (HDR) brachytherapy treatments is provided to demonstrate the effectiveness and feasibility of the proposed method, and a comparative analysis with some other existing methods is given.