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The major influence of this analysis is to initiate the mathematical ideology of cubic intuitionistic complex fuzzy (CICF) information and its well-known properties such as algebraic laws, score values, and accuracy values. It is also to determine various inequalities for finding the relation between any two CICF numbers (CICFNs). Further, we know that the Bonferroni mean (BM) operator is more generalized than the simple averaging\/geometric aggregation operators due to parameters involved in the mathematical form of BM operators. Keeping the supremacy and consistency of BM operators, the idea of CICF Bonferroni mean (CICFBM) and CICF weighted BM (CICFWBM) operators are diagnosed. We try to describe their well-known results and properties such as idempotency, monotonicity, commutativity, and boundedness with various specific cases. Further, we investigate three different sorts of decision-making procedures such as MADM tool, TOPSIS (Technique for order of preference by similarity to ideal solution) method using similarity measures, and TOPSIS method using aggregation operators to enhance the quality of the decision-making process. This analysis expressed how to make decisions when there is asymmetric data about companies. Finally, we compute the comparative analysis of the diagnostic approaches with various existing theories to demonstrate the feasibility and flexibility of the exposed work to try to illustrate with the help of geometrical expressions.<\/jats:p>","DOI":"10.3390\/sym14030533","type":"journal-article","created":{"date-parts":[[2022,3,6]],"date-time":"2022-03-06T20:40:02Z","timestamp":1646599202000},"page":"533","update-policy":"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.3390\/mdpi_crossmark_policy","source":"Crossref","is-referenced-by-count":6,"title":["Analysis and Applications of Bonferroni Mean Operators and TOPSIS Method in Complete Cubic Intuitionistic Complex Fuzzy Information Systems"],"prefix":"10.3390","volume":"14","author":[{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0002-3871-3845","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Tahir","family":"Mahmood","sequence":"first","affiliation":[{"name":"Department of Mathematics and Statistics, International Islamic University Islamabad, Islamabad 44000, Pakistan"}]},{"given":"Zeeshan","family":"Ali","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Department of Mathematics and Statistics, International Islamic University Islamabad, Islamabad 44000, Pakistan"}]},{"given":"Samruam","family":"Baupradist","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Department of Mathematics and Computer Science, Chulalongkorn University, Bangkok 10330, Thailand"}]},{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0002-6113-3689","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Ronnason","family":"Chinram","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Division of Computational Science, Faculty of Science, Prince of Songkla University, Songkhla 90110, Thailand"}]}],"member":"1968","published-online":{"date-parts":[[2022,3,5]]},"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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