In this paper we propose an algorithm to solve group decision making problems using n-dimensional fuzzy sets, namely, sets in which the membership degree of each element to the set is given by an increasing tuple of n elements. The use of these sets has naturally led us to define admissible orders for n-dimensional fuzzy sets, to present a construction method for those orders and to study OWA operators for aggregating the tuples used to represent the membership degrees of the elements. In these conditions, we present an algorithm and apply it to a case study, in which we show that the exploitation phase which appears in many decision making methods can be omitted by just considering linear orders between tuples.
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