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      <journal-id journal-id-type="publisher">BJCR</journal-id>
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        <journal-title xml:lang="en">British Journal of Contemporary Research</journal-title>
        <abbrev-journal-title xml:lang="en">BJCR</abbrev-journal-title>
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      <issn>2979-8582</issn>
      <publisher>
        <publisher-name>Bexford Publishing Ltd</publisher-name>
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      <article-id pub-id-type="publisher-id">BEX_OCT_26_249</article-id>
      <article-id pub-id-type="doi">10.67693/BJCR-GTB5NFWA</article-id>
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          <subject>Original Research Article</subject>
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        <article-title xml:lang="en">A Graded Soft Set Framework for Multi-Criteria Decision-Making Under Uncertainty: Weighted Ranking and Parameter Reduction</article-title>
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            <given-names>Vinni Rani</given-names>
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        <email>vinnirani2@gmail.com</email>
        <bio xml:lang="en"><p>SHP&amp;MS, Shobhit Institute of Engineering and Technology (Deemed to be University), Meerut, U.P., India</p></bio>
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        <name-alternatives>
          <name name-style="western" specific-use="primary">
            <given-names>Shamshad Husain</given-names>
          </name>
        </name-alternatives>
        <email>vinnirani2@gmail.com</email>
        <bio xml:lang="en"><p>SHP&amp;MS, Shobhit Institute of Engineering and Technology (Deemed to be University), Meerut, U.P., India, 250110</p></bio>
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      <pub-date date-type="pub" publication-format="epub">
        <day>10</day>
        <month>11</month>
        <year>2026</year>
      </pub-date>
      <volume>1</volume>
      <issue>6</issue>
      
      
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        <event event-type="received">
          <event-desc>Received: <date date-type="received">
            <day>28</day>
            <month>10</month>
            <year>2026</year>
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          <event-desc>Accepted: <date date-type="accepted">
            <day>02</day>
            <month>11</month>
            <year>2026</year>
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        <copyright-statement>Copyright (c) 2026 Vinni Rani</copyright-statement>
        <copyright-year>2026</copyright-year>
        <license xlink:href="https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0">
          <license-p>This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License.</license-p>
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      <abstract><p>Decision-making under uncertainty is often complex and involves incomplete and imprecise information on several criteria. To address these challenges, this study introduces a graded soft set framework by incorporating membership and complementary inverse membership functions into soft set theory. Basic set operations and their algebraic properties are set up. Three algorithms are developed to solve the alternative selection problem, the weighted ranking problem and the parameter reduction problem. The proposed approaches use criterion weights and the grading scores for the evaluation of the alternatives and the determination of the less significant parameters. Applications to supplier selection and symptom-based assessment illustrate the framework&#039;s practical utility. The suggested methodology provides a straightforward and interpretable decision-supporting tool for multi-criteria decision-making, which needs to be validated in sensitivity analysis and compared to other existing methodologies</p></abstract>
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