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To manage ambiguity and inconsistency in real-life problems, the principle of Aczel\u2013Alsina (AA) t-norm and t-conorm was initiated in 1980. These norms are massively modified and different from prevailing norms due to parameter p, where 0&lt;p&lt;+\u221e. The major contribution of this analysis is to analyze the AA operational laws (addition, multiplication, score value, accuracy value) under the complex intuitionistic fuzzy (CIF) settings. Furthermore, we initiated the principle of CIFAA weighted averaging (CIFAAWA), CIFAA ordered weighted averaging (CIFAAOWA), CIFAA hybrid averaging (CIFAAHA), CIFAA weighted geometric (CIFAAWG), CIFAA ordered weighted geometric (CIFAAOWG), CIFAA hybrid geometric (CIFAAHG), as well as their beneficial results. Additionally, to consider the elaborated works, a multi-attribute decision-making (MADM) technique was explored to investigate the supremacy and feasibility of the developed works. The main influence of this manuscript is how to choose the best decision under the availability of asymmetric types of information given by different experts. 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