View full-text article in PMC J Ambient Intell Humaniz Comput. 2021 Oct 25;14(6):6919–6946. doi: 10.1007/s12652-021-03550-w Search in PMC Search in PubMed View in NLM Catalog Add to search Copyright and License information © The Author(s), under exclusive licence to Springer-Verlag GmbH Germany, part of Springer Nature 2021 This article is made available via the PMC Open Access Subset for unrestricted research re-use and secondary analysis in any form or by any means with acknowledgement of the original source. These permissions are granted for the duration of the World Health Organization (WHO) declaration of COVID-19 as a global pandemic. PMC Copyright notice Table 6. The comparison with the existing aggregation operators Method Criteria Weight Parameter Score Function Ranking Order HBNA No No sA1=0.585,sA2=0.704, sA3=0.633,sA4=0.735 A4>A2>A3>A1 HBNG No No sA1=0.528,sA2=0.664, sA3=0.603,sA4=0.658 A2>A4>A3>A1 HBNWA (Awang et al. 2019a,b) Yes No sA1=0.570,sA2=0.695, sA3=0.629,sA4=0.727 A4>A2>A3>A1 HBNWG (Awang et al. 2019a,b) Yes No sA1=0.477,sA2=0.629, sA3=0.569,sA4=0.621 A2>A4>A3>A1 HBN-BM No Yes sA1=0.554,sA2=0.677, sA3=0.614,sA4=0.694 A4>A2>A3>A1 GHBN-WA Yes Yes sA1=0.604,sA2=0.730, sA3=0.670,sA4=0.757 A4>A2>A3>A1 HBN-SNWBM (Proposed method) Yes Yes sA1=0.536,sA2=0.669, sA3=0.609,sA4=0.682 A4>A2>A3>A1