1. Introduction
Various types of uncertainty arise in many complex systems and/or real-world situations such as behavior, biology, chemistry, etc. The fuzzy set introduced by L.A. Zade [
1] in 1965 is a useful tool for dealing with uncertainties in many of these real-world applications. One of the extended concepts of the fuzzy set, the intuitionistic fuzzy set was introduced by Atanassov in 1983 (see [
2]), and it has been applied in several fields. Intuitionistic fuzzy set is very useful in providing a flexible model to elaborate uncertainty and vagueness involved in decision making, and it is a tool in modelling real life problems like sale analysis, new product marketing, financial services, negotiation process, psychological investigations etc. The concept of neutrosophic set has been introduced by Smarandache [
3,
4,
5] and it is a generalization of classic set, (inconsistent) intuitionistic fuzzy set, interval valued (intuitionistic) fuzzy set, picture fuzzy set, ternary fuzzy set, Pythagorean fuzzy set, q-rung orthopair fuzzy set, spherical fuzzy set, and n-hyperspherical fuzzy set. Neutrosophic set is able to handle inconsistency, indeterminacy, and uncertainty for reasoning and computing. Therefore, we can see that neutrosophic set is widely applied to a variety of areas. It can be said that the generalization of the theory shows that the scope of application will be greatly expanded. In [
6], the notion of MBJ-neutrosophic sets has been introduced as a little extended concept of neutrosophic set and it has been applied to BCK/BCI-algebras. Jun et al. [
7] and Hur et al. [
8] applied the concept of MBJ-neutrosophic sets to ideals and positive implicative ideals in BCK/BCI-algebras, respectively.
The purpose of this paper is to study commutative ideal in BCI-algebra using the MBJ-neutrosophic set. We introduce the notion of closed MBJ-neutrosophic ideal and commutative MBJ-neutrosophic ideal, and investigate their properties. We discuss the next items.
- Using commutative ideal to set up commutative MBJ-neutrosophic ideal 
- Investigating the relationship between MBJ-neutrosophic ideal and commutative MBJ-neutrosophic ideal. 
- Presenting the conditions under which a commutative MBJ-neutrosophic ideal can be made from an MBJ-neutrosophic ideal. 
- Presenting a condition for an MBJ-neutrosophic set to be a closed MBJ-neutrosophic ideal. 
- Establishing characterization of a commutative MBJ-neutrosophic ideal (using the MBJ-level sets of an MBJ-neutrosophic set). 
- Constructing the extension property for a commutative MBJ-neutrosophic ideal. 
In the second section, we list the well-known foundations for BCK-algebra and MBJ-neutrosophic set required in this paper. Commutative ideal in BCI-algebra using MBJ-neutrosophic set will be studied in the third section.
  3. Commutative MBJ-Neutrosophic Ideals of BCI-Algebras
In this section, let X denote a BCI-algebra unless otherwise specified.
Definition 1. An MBJ-neutrosophic set  in X is called a commutative MBJ-neutrosophic ideal (briefly, cMBJ-neutrosophic ideal) of X if it satisfies (17) andfor all .  Example 1. Consider a BCI-algebra  with the binary operation * which is given in Table 1 (see [11]). Let  be an MBJ-neutrosophic set in X defined by Table 2. It is routine to verify that  is a cMBJ-neutrosophic ideal of X.
 Proposition 1. Every cMBJ-neutrosophic ideal  of X satisfies:for all .  Proof.  The result (
22) is obtained using (
1) and (
17) after choosing 
 in (
20) and (
21).    □
 Using a commutative ideal, we establish a cMBJ-neutrosophic ideal.
Theorem 1. Given a commutative ideal I of X, consider an MBJ-neutrosophic set  in X as follows:where ,  in  and  in . Then  is a cMBJ-neutrosophic ideal of X.  Proof.  It is clear that 
 for all 
. Let 
. If 
 and 
, then 
 since 
I is a commutative ideal of 
X. Hence
        
        that is, 
, and
        
Assume that  or . Then  or .
It follows that 
 and
        
Therefore  is a cMBJ-neutrosophic ideal of X.    □
 We discuss the relationship between a cMBJ-neutrosophic ideal and an MBJ-neutrosophic ideal.
Theorem 2. Every cMBJ-neutrosophic ideal is an MBJ-neutrosophic ideal.
 Proof.  Let 
 be a cMBJ-neutrosophic ideal of 
X. If we take 
 in (
20) and (
21) and use (
1), then
        
        and
        
        for all 
. Therefore 
 is an MBJ-neutrosophic ideal of 
X.    □
 The next example shows that the converse of Theorem 2 is not true.
Example 2. Consider a BCI-algebra  with the binary operation * which is given in Table 3 (see [12]). Let  be an MBJ-neutrosophic set in X defined by Table 4. It is routine to verify that  is an MBJ-neutrosophic ideal of X. We can observe that Hence  is not a cMBJ-neutrosophic ideal of X by Proposition 1.
 We find and present the conditions under which a cMBJ-neutrosophic ideal can be made from an MBJ-neutrosophic ideal.
Theorem 3. Given an MBJ-neutrosophic set  in X, the next assertions are equivalent.
- (i)
-  is a cMBJ-neutrosophic ideal of X. 
- (ii)
-  is an MBJ-neutrosophic ideal of X that satisfies (22). 
 Proof.  The necessity is evident by Proposition 1 and Theorem 2. Let 
 be an MBJ-neutrosophic ideal of 
X that satisfies (
22). Then 
 and
        
It follows from (
22) that 
 and
        
Therefore  is a cMBJ-neutrosophic ideal of X.    □
 Given an MBJ-neutrosophic set 
 in 
X, we consider the next assertion.
      
In the following example, we know that there exists an MBJ-neutrosophic ideal 
 of 
X which does not satisfy the condition (
23).
Example 3. Consider the BCI-algebra  where  is the set of integers and “−” is the minus operation in . Let  be an MBJ-neutrosophic set in  defined bywhere  is the set of natural numbers,  and α is the proper superset of β in . Then  is an MBJ-neutrosophic ideal of , but it does not satisfy the condition (23) since .  Definition 2 ([
7]). 
An MBJ-neutrosophic ideal  of X is said to be closed if it satisfies (23). Example 4. Let  be an MBJ-neutrosophic set in X defined bywhere ,  and α is the proper superset of β in . It is routine to verify that  is a closed MBJ-neutrosophic ideal of X.  We provide a condition for an MBJ-neutrosophic set to be a closed MBJ-neutrosophic ideal.
Theorem 4. Given an element , let  be an MBJ-neutrosophic set in X defined bywhere  and α is the proper superset of β in . Then  is a closed MBJ-neutrosophic ideal of X.  Proof.  Since 
, it is clear that 
 for all 
. For any 
, if 
, then 
 and so 
. If 
, then 
 and thus
        
Hence 
 for all 
, and therefore 
 satisfies the condition (
23). Let 
. Assume that 
 and 
. Then
        
        by 
, (
1), (
3), (
6) and (
24). On the other hand, we have
        
        by 
 and (
3). Hence 
, that is, 
. Therefore
        
        and 
 If 
 or 
, then 
 or 
. Therefore 
 and
        
As a result,  is a closed MBJ-neutrosophic ideal of X.    □
 Lemma 1 ([
7]). 
Every MBJ-neutrosophic ideal  of X satisfies: Theorem 5. A closed MBJ-neutrosophic ideal  of X is commutative if and only if it satisfies:  Proof.  Assume that a closed MBJ-neutrosophic ideal 
 of 
X is commutative, and let 
. Note that
        
It follows from Proposition 1 and Lemma 1 that 
 and
        
Since 
 is closed, the combination these with (
23) induce
        
Conversely, suppose that a closed MBJ-neutrosophic ideal 
 of 
X satisfies the condition (
26). For every 
, we have
        
It follows from Lemma 1 and (
26) that 
 and
        
Since 
 is closed, the combination these with (
23) induce
        
Therefore  is commutative by Theorem 3.    □
 Lemma 2 ([
9]). 
A BCI-algebra X is commutative if and only if it satisfies: Theorem 6. In a commutative BCI-algebra, every closed MBJ-neutrosophic ideal is commutative.
 Proof.  Let 
 be a closed MBJ-neutrosophic ideal of 
X. For every 
, we have
        
        by 
, 
, (
3), (
5) and Lemma 2. It follows from Lemma 1 and (
23) that 
 Consequently, 
 is a cMBJ-neutrosophic ideal of 
X by Theorem 5.    □
 We form the characterization of a cMBJ-neutrosophic ideal using the MBJ-level sets of an MBJ-neutrosophic set  in X.
Lemma 3 ([
7]). 
An MBJ-neutrosophic set  in X is an MBJ-neutrosophic ideal of X if and only if the non-empty MBJ-level sets of  are ideals of X. Lemma 4 ([
10]). 
A subset I of X is a commutative ideal of X if and only if it is an ideal of X that satisfies:for all . Theorem 7. An MBJ-neutrosophic set  in X is a cMBJ-neutrosophic ideal of X if and only if the non-empty MBJ-level sets of  are commutative ideals of X.
 Proof.  Assume that 
 is a cMBJ-neutrosophic ideal of 
X. Then it is an MBJ-neutrosophic ideal of 
X. Let 
 and 
 be such that 
 and 
 are non-empty. Then 
 and 
 are ideals of 
X for all 
 and 
 by Lemma 3. Let 
 be such that 
, 
 and 
. Then 
, 
 and 
. It follows from Proposition 1 that
        
        and 
 It follows that
        
        and 
 Therefore 
 and 
 are commutative ideals of 
X by Lemma 4.
Conversely, suppose that the non-empty MBJ-level sets 
 and 
 are commutative ideals of 
X for all 
 and 
. Then they are ideals of 
X, and so 
 is an MBJ-neutrosophic ideal of 
X by Lemma 3. Assume that
        
        for some 
. Then
        
        or 
 If
        
        then 
 and 
 for 
. This is a contradiction. If
        
        then 
 and 
 for 
, which is impossible. If
        
        then 
 and 
 for some 
. This is also a contradiction. As a result, we know that
        
        for all 
. Therefore 
 is a cMBJ-neutrosophic ideal of 
X by Theorem 3.    □
 Note that any MBJ-neutrosophic ideal might not be a cMBJ-neutrosophic ideal (see Example 2). But we have the following extension property for a cMBJ-neutrosophic ideal.
Theorem 8. Let  and  be MBJ-neutrosophic ideals of X such that
- (i)
- ,  and . 
- (ii)
- ,  and  for all . 
If  is a cMBJ-neutrosophic ideal and  is a closed MBJ-neutrosophic ideal of X, then  is a cMBJ-neutrosophic ideal of X.
 Proof.  Assume that 
 is a cMBJ-neutrosophic ideal and 
 is a closed MBJ-neutrosophic ideal of 
X. Then
        
        by (
23). Using 
, (
1), (
3), Proposition 1 and the given conditions, we have
        
        and
        
It follows from (
17)–(
19) that
        
        and
        
Since
        
        we have
        
        and
        
        by Lemma 1. This shows that 
. Consequently, 
 is a cMBJ-neutrosophic ideal of 
X by Theorem 5.    □
   4. Conclusions
Neutrosophic set, which is introduced by Smarandache, is a generalization of (inconsistent) intuitionistic fuzzy set, picture fuzzy set, ternary fuzzy set, Pythagorean fuzzy set, q-rung orthopair fuzzy set, spherical fuzzy set, and n-hyperspherical fuzzy set. Neutrosophic set is able to handle inconsistency, indeterminacy, and uncertainty for reasoning and computing. Therefore, we can see that neutrosophic set is widely applied to a variety of areas. The generalization of the theory shows that the scope of application will be greatly expanded. From this point of view, Mohseni Takallo et al. tried to introduce the notion of MBJ-neutrosophic sets as a little extended concept of neutrosophic set. The aim of this manuscript was to conduct a study that applied the MBJ-neutrosophic set to commutative ideal in BCI-algebra. We introduced the notion of closed MBJ-neutrosophic ideal and commutative MBJ-neutrosophic ideal, and investigated their related properties. We used commutative ideal to set up commutative MBJ-neutrosophic ideal, and discussed the relationship between MBJ-neutrosophic ideal and commutative MBJ-neutrosophic ideal. We presented the conditions under which a commutative MBJ-neutrosophic ideal can be made from an MBJ-neutrosophic ideal, and presented a condition for an MBJ-neutrosophic set to be a closed MBJ-neutrosophic ideal. We established characterizations of a commutative MBJ-neutrosophic ideal by using the MBJ-level sets of an MBJ-neutrosophic set, and constructed the extension property for a commutative MBJ-neutrosophic ideal. The ideas and results of this paper are expected to be applicable in related algebraic structures in the future, such as MV-algebra, BL-algebra, EQ-algebra, hoop, equality algebra, etc., so we hope that many mathematicians will proceed with the study and achieve good results.