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In addition, since the Maclaurin symmetric mean (MSM) operator has the special characteristic of capturing the interrelationships among multi-input arguments, we further propose an MSM operator for INLNs (INLMSM). Furthermore, considering the weights of attributes are the important parameters and they can influence the decision results, we also propose a weighted INLMSM (WINLMSM) operator. Based on the WINLMSM operator, we develop a multiple attribute decision making (MADM) method with INLNs and some examples are used to show the procedure and effectiveness of the proposed method. Compared with the existing methods, the proposed method is more convenient to express the complex and unclear information. At the same time, it is more scientific and flexible in solving the MADM problems by considering the interrelationships among multi-attributes.<\/jats:p>","DOI":"10.3390\/sym10040127","type":"journal-article","created":{"date-parts":[[2018,4,24]],"date-time":"2018-04-24T04:44:48Z","timestamp":1524545088000},"page":"127","update-policy":"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.3390\/mdpi_crossmark_policy","source":"Crossref","is-referenced-by-count":10,"title":["Some Interval Neutrosophic Linguistic Maclaurin Symmetric Mean Operators and Their Application in Multiple Attribute Decision Making"],"prefix":"10.3390","volume":"10","author":[{"given":"Yushui","family":"Geng","sequence":"first","affiliation":[{"name":"Graduate School, Qilu University of Technology, Jinan 250353, China"}]},{"given":"Xingang","family":"Wang","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"School of Information, Qilu University of Technology, Jinan 250353, China"}]},{"given":"Xuemei","family":"Li","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"School of Information, Qilu University of Technology, Jinan 250353, China"}]},{"given":"Kun","family":"Yu","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"School of Information, Qilu University of Technology, Jinan 250353, China"}]},{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0001-5048-8145","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Peide","family":"Liu","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"School of Management Science and Engineering, Shandong University of Finance and Economics, Jinan 250353, China"}]}],"member":"1968","published-online":{"date-parts":[[2018,4,22]]},"reference":[{"key":"ref_1","doi-asserted-by":"crossref","first-page":"338","DOI":"10.1016\/S0019-9958(65)90241-X","article-title":"Fuzzy sets","volume":"8","author":"Zadeh","year":"1965","journal-title":"Inf. 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