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The goal of this study is to establish fairly operational rules and aggregation operators (AOs) in a linear Diophantine fuzzy context. To achieve this goal, we devised innovative operational principles that make use of the notion of proportional distribution to provide an equitable or fair aggregate for linear Diophantine fuzzy numbers (LDFNs). Furthermore, a multi-criteria decision-making (MCDM) approach is built by combining recommended fairly AOs with evaluations from multiple decision-makers (DMs) and partial weight information under the linear Diophantine fuzzy paradigm. The weights of the criterion are determined using incomplete data with the help of a linear programming model. The enhanced technique might be used in the selection of compounds in a variety of applications, including biomedical programmes where the chemicals used in prostheses must have qualities similar to those of human tissues. The approach presented for the femoral component of the hip joint prosthesis may be used by orthopaedists and practitioners who will choose bio-materials. This is due to the fact that biomedical materials are employed in many sections of the human body for various functions.<\/jats:p>","DOI":"10.3390\/axioms11120735","type":"journal-article","created":{"date-parts":[[2022,12,16]],"date-time":"2022-12-16T02:54:02Z","timestamp":1671159242000},"page":"735","update-policy":"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.3390\/mdpi_crossmark_policy","source":"Crossref","is-referenced-by-count":16,"title":["Linear Diophantine Fuzzy Fairly Averaging Operator for Suitable Biomedical Material Selection"],"prefix":"10.3390","volume":"11","author":[{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0002-8318-0750","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Hafiz Muhammad Athar","family":"Farid","sequence":"first","affiliation":[{"name":"Department of Mathematics, University of the Punjab, Lahore 54590, Pakistan"}]},{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0002-4902-2193","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Rukhsana","family":"Kausar","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Department of Mathematics, University of the Punjab, Lahore 54590, Pakistan"}]},{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0001-8115-9168","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Muhammad","family":"Riaz","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Department of Mathematics, University of the Punjab, Lahore 54590, Pakistan"}]},{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0002-3583-9434","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Dragan","family":"Marinkovic","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Department of Structural Analysis, Technical University Berlin, 10623 Berlin, Germany"},{"name":"Faculty of Mechanical Engineering, University of Nis, 18000 Nis, Serbia"}]},{"given":"Miomir","family":"Stankovic","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Mathematical Institute of the Serbian Academy of Sciences and Arts, 11001 Belgrade, Serbia"}]}],"member":"1968","published-online":{"date-parts":[[2022,12,15]]},"reference":[{"key":"ref_1","doi-asserted-by":"crossref","first-page":"1215","DOI":"10.1016\/j.matdes.2010.10.015","article-title":"A comprehensive VIKOR method for material selection","volume":"32","author":"Jahan","year":"2011","journal-title":"Mater. 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