An Intelligent MCGDM Model in Green Suppliers Selection Using Interactional Aggregation Operators for Interval-Valued Pythagorean Fuzzy Soft Sets

Green supplier selection is an important debate in green supply chain management(GSCM),attracting global attention from scholars,especially companies and policymakers.Companies frequently search for new ideas and strategies to assist them in realizing sustainable development.Because of the speculative character of human opinions,supplier selection frequently includes unreliable data,and the interval-valued Pythagorean fuzzy soft set(IVPFSS)provides an exceptional capacity to cope with excessive fuzziness,inconsistency,and inexactness through the decision-making procedure.The main goal of this study is to come up with new operational laws for interval-valued Pythagorean fuzzy soft numbers(IVPFSNs)and create two interaction operators-the intervalvalued Pythagorean fuzzy soft interaction weighted average(IVPFSIWA)and the interval-valued Pythagorean fuzzy soft interaction weighted geometric(IVPFSIWG)operators,and analyze their properties.These operators are highly advantageous in addressing uncertain problems by considering membership and non-membership values within intervals,providing a superior solution to other methods.Moreover,specialist judgments were calculated by the MCGDM technique,supporting the use of interaction AOs to regulate the interdependence and fundamental partiality of green supplier assessment aspects.Lastly,a statistical clarification of the planned method for green supplier selection is presented.

Novel Distance Measures on Hesitant Fuzzy Sets Based on Equal-Probability Transformation and Their Application in Decision Making on Intersection Traffic Control

The purpose of this study is to reduce the uncertainty in the calculation process on hesitant fuzzy sets(HFSs).The innovation of this study is to unify the cardinal numbers of hesitant fuzzy elements(HFEs)in a special way.Firstly,a probability density function is assigned for any given HFE.Thereafter,equal-probability transformation is introduced to transform HFEs with different cardinal numbers on the condition into the same probability density function.The characteristic of this transformation is that the higher the consistency of the membership degrees in HFEs,the higher the credibility of the mentioned membership degrees is,then,the bigger the probability density values for them are.According to this transformation technique,a set of novel distance measures on HFSs is provided.Finally,an illustrative example of intersection traffic control is introduced to show the usefulness of the given distance measures.The example also shows that this study is a good complement to operation theories on HFSs.

On similarity measures of interval-valued intuitionistic fuzzy sets and their application to pattern recognitions

The concept of the degree of similarity between interval-valued intuitionistic fuzzy sets （IVIFSs） is introduced, and some distance measures between IVIFSs are defined based on the Hamming distance, the normalized Hamming distance, the weighted Hamming distance, the Euclidean distance, the normalized Euclidean distance, and the weighted Euclidean distance, etc. Then, by combining the Hausdorff metric with the Hamming distance, the Euclidean distance and their weighted versions, two other similarity measures between IVIFSs, i. e., the weighted Hamming distance based on the Hausdorff metric and the weighted Euclidean distance based on the Hausdorff metric, are defined, and then some of their properties are studied. Finally, based on these distance measures, some similarity measures between IVIFSs are defined, and the similarity measures are applied to pattern recognitions with interval-valued intuitionistic fuzzy information.

Aggregation Operators for Interval-Valued Pythagorean Fuzzy Hypersoft Set with Their Application to Solve MCDM Problem

Experts use Pythagorean fuzzy hypersoft sets(PFHSS)in their investigations to resolve the indeterminate and imprecise information in the decision-making process.Aggregation operators(AOs)perform a leading role in perceptivity among two circulations of prospect and pull out concerns from that perception.In this paper,we extend the concept of PFHSS to interval-valued PFHSS(IVPFHSS),which is the generalized form of intervalvalued intuitionistic fuzzy soft set.The IVPFHSS competently deals with uncertain and ambagious information compared to the existing interval-valued Pythagorean fuzzy soft set.It is the most potent method for amplifying fuzzy data in the decision-making(DM)practice.Some operational laws for IVPFHSS have been proposed.Based on offered operational laws,two inventive AOs have been established:interval-valued Pythagorean fuzzy hypersoft weighted average(IVPFHSWA)and interval-valued Pythagorean fuzzy hypersoft weighted geometric(IVPFHSWG)operators with their essential properties.Multi-criteria group decision-making(MCGDM)shows an active part in contracts with the difficulties in industrial enterprise for material selection.But,the prevalent MCGDM approaches consistently carry irreconcilable consequences.Based on the anticipated AOs,a robust MCGDMtechnique is deliberate formaterial selection in industrial enterprises to accommodate this shortcoming.A real-world application of the projectedMCGDMmethod for material selection(MS)of cryogenic storing vessels is presented.The impacts show that the intended model is more effective and reliable in handling imprecise data based on IVPFHSS.

Fully implicational methods for approximate reasoning based on interval-valued fuzzy sets

The aim of this paper is to discuss the approximate rea- soning problems with interval-valued fuzzy environments based on the fully implicational idea. First, this paper constructs a class of interval-valued fuzzy implications by means of a type of impli- cations and a parameter on the unit interval, then uses them to establish fully implicational reasoning methods for interval-valued fuzzy modus ponens （IFMP） and interval-valued fuzzy modus tel- lens （IFMT） problems. At the same time the reversibility properties of these methods are analyzed and the reversible conditions are given. It is shown that the existing unified forms of α-triple I （the abbreviation of triple implications） methods for FMP and FMT can be seen as the particular cases of our methods for IFMP and IFMT.

On Similarity Measures and Distance Measures of Fuzzy Soft Sets

In this paper we introduce several new similarity measures and distance measures between fuzzy soft sets, these measures are examined based on the set-theoretic approach and the matching function. Comparative studies of these measures are derived. By introducing two general formulas, we propose a new method to define the similarity measures and the distance measures between two fuzzy soft sets with different parameter sets.

Interval-Valued Intuitionistic Fuzzy-Rough Sets

This paper combines interval-valued intuitionistic fuzzy sets and rough sets.It studies rougheness in interval-valued intuitionistic fuzzy sets and proposes one kind of interval-valued intuitionistic fuzzy-rough sets models under the equivalence relation in crisp sets.That extends the classical rough set defined by Pawlak.

A KIND OF FUZZY LINEAR PROGRAMMING PROBLEMS BASED ON INTERVAL-VALUED FUZZY SETS

The objective of this paper is to deal with a kind of fuzzy linear programming problem based on interval\|valued fuzzy sets (IVFLP) through the medium of procedure that turns IVFLP into parametric linear programming via the mathematical programming.Some useful results for the benefit of solving IVFLP are expounded and proved,developed and discussed.Furthermore,that the proposed techniques in this paper allow the decision\|maker to assign a different degree of importance can provide a useful way to efficiently help the decision\|maker make their decisions.

A Novel Incremental Attribute Reduction Algorithm Based on Intuitionistic Fuzzy Partition Distance

Attribute reduction,also known as feature selection,for decision information systems is one of the most pivotal issues in machine learning and data mining.Approaches based on the rough set theory and some extensions were proved to be efficient for dealing with the problemof attribute reduction.Unfortunately,the intuitionistic fuzzy sets based methods have not received much interest,while these methods are well-known as a very powerful approach to noisy decision tables,i.e.,data tables with the low initial classification accuracy.Therefore,this paper provides a novel incremental attribute reductionmethod to dealmore effectivelywith noisy decision tables,especially for highdimensional ones.In particular,we define a new reduct and then design an original attribute reduction method based on the distance measure between two intuitionistic fuzzy partitions.It should be noted that the intuitionistic fuzzypartitiondistance iswell-knownas aneffectivemeasure todetermine important attributes.More interestingly,an incremental formula is also developed to quickly compute the intuitionistic fuzzy partition distance in case when the decision table increases in the number of objects.This formula is then applied to construct an incremental attribute reduction algorithm for handling such dynamic tables.Besides,some experiments are conducted on real datasets to show that our method is far superior to the fuzzy rough set based methods in terms of the size of reduct and the classification accuracy.

Aggregation Operators for Interval-Valued Pythagorean Fuzzy Soft Set with Their Application to Solve Multi-Attribute Group Decision Making Problem

Interval-valued Pythagorean fuzzy soft set(IVPFSS)is a generalization of the interval-valued intuitionistic fuzzy soft set(IVIFSS)and interval-valued Pythagorean fuzzy set(IVPFS).The IVPFSS handled more uncertainty comparative to IVIFSS;it is the most significant technique for explaining fuzzy information in the decision-making process.In this work,some novel operational laws for IVPFSS have been proposed.Based on presented operational laws,two innovative aggregation operators(AOs)have been developed such as interval-valued Pythagorean fuzzy soft weighted average(IVPFSWA)and interval-valued Pythagorean fuzzy soft weighted geometric(IVPFSWG)operators with their fundamental properties.A multi-attribute group decision-making(MAGDM)approach has been established utilizing our developed operators.A numerical example has been presented to ensure the validity of the proposed MAGDM technique.Finally,comparative studies have been given between the proposed approach and some existing studies.The obtained results through comparative studies show that the proposed technique is more credible and reliable than existing approaches.

Generalized Normalized Euclidean Distance Based Fuzzy Soft Set Similarity for Data Classification

Classification is one of the data mining processes used to predict predetermined target classes with data learning accurately.This study discusses data classification using a fuzzy soft set method to predict target classes accurately.This study aims to form a data classification algorithm using the fuzzy soft set method.In this study,the fuzzy soft set was calculated based on the normalized Hamming distance.Each parameter in this method is mapped to a power set from a subset of the fuzzy set using a fuzzy approximation function.In the classification step,a generalized normalized Euclidean distance is used to determine the similarity between two sets of fuzzy soft sets.The experiments used the University of California(UCI)Machine Learning dataset to assess the accuracy of the proposed data classification method.The dataset samples were divided into training(75%of samples)and test(25%of samples)sets.Experiments were performed in MATLAB R2010a software.The experiments showed that:(1)The fastest sequence is matching function,distance measure,similarity,normalized Euclidean distance,(2)the proposed approach can improve accuracy and recall by up to 10.3436%and 6.9723%,respectively,compared with baseline techniques.Hence,the fuzzy soft set method is appropriate for classifying data.

Interval-valued intuitionistic fuzzy aggregation operators

The notion of the interval-valued intuitionistic fuzzy set （IVIFS） is a generalization of that of the Atanassov＇s intuitionistic fuzzy set. The fundamental characteristic of IVIFS is that the values of its membership function and non-membership function are intervals rather than exact numbers. There are various averaging operators defined for IVlFSs. These operators are not monotone with respect to the total order of IVIFS, which is undesirable. This paper shows how such averaging operators can be represented by using additive generators of the product triangular norm, which simplifies and extends the existing constructions. Moreover, two new aggregation operators based on the t.ukasiewicz triangular norm are proposed, which are monotone with respect to the total order of IVIFS. Finally, an application of the interval-valued intuitionistic fuzzy weighted averaging operator is given to multiple criteria decision making.

Multi-Criteria Decision Making Based on Bipolar Picture Fuzzy Operators and New Distance Measures

This paper aims to introduce the novel concept of the bipolar picture fuzzy set(BPFS)as a hybrid structure of bipolar fuzzy set(BFS)and picture fuzzy set(PFS).BPFS is a new kind of fuzzy sets to deal with bipolarity(both positive and negative aspects)to each membership degree(belonging-ness),neutral membership(not decided),and non-membership degree(refusal).In this article,some basic properties of bipolar picture fuzzy sets(BPFSs)and their fundamental operations are introduced.The score function,accuracy function and certainty function are suggested to discuss the comparability of bipolar picture fuzzy numbers(BPFNs).Additionally,the concept of new distance measures of BPFSs is presented to discuss geometrical properties of BPFSs.In the context of BPFSs,certain aggregation operators(AOs)named as“bipolar picture fuzzy weighted geometric(BPFWG)operator,bipolar picture fuzzy ordered weighted geometric(BPFOWG)operator and bipolar picture fuzzy hybrid geometric(BPFHG)operator”are defined for information aggregation of BPFNs.Based on the proposed AOs,a new multicriteria decision-making(MCDM)approach is proposed to address uncertain real-life situations.Finally,a practical application of proposed methodology is also illustrated to discuss its feasibility and applicability.

Big Data Clustering Optimization Based on Intuitionistic Fuzzy Set Distance and Particle Swarm Optimization forWireless Sensor Networks

Big data clustering plays an important role in the field of data processing in wireless sensor networks.However,there are some problems such as poor clustering effect and low Jaccard coefficient.This paper proposes a novel big data clustering optimization method based on intuitionistic fuzzy set distance and particle swarm optimization for wireless sensor networks.This method combines principal component analysis method and information entropy dimensionality reduction to process big data and reduce the time required for data clustering.A new distance measurement method of intuitionistic fuzzy sets is defined,which not only considers membership and non-membership information,but also considers the allocation of hesitancy to membership and non-membership,thereby indirectly introducing hesitancy into intuitionistic fuzzy set distance.The intuitionistic fuzzy kernel clustering algorithm is used to cluster big data,and particle swarm optimization is introduced to optimize the intuitionistic fuzzy kernel clustering method.The optimized algorithm is used to obtain the optimization results of wireless sensor network big data clustering,and the big data clustering is realized.Simulation results show that the proposed method has good clustering effect by comparing with other state-of-the-art clustering methods.

Bipolar Interval-Valued Neutrosophic Optimization Model of Integrated Healthcare System

Bipolar Interval-valued neutrosophic set is another generalization of fuzzy set,neutrosophic set,bipolar fuzzy set and bipolar neutrosophic set and thus when applied to the optimization problem handles uncertain data more efficiently and flexibly.Current work is an effort to design a flexible optimization model in the backdrop of interval-valued bipolar neutrosophic sets.Bipolar interval-valued neutrosophic membership grades are picked so that they indicate the restriction of the plausible infringement of the inequalities given in the problem.To prove the adequacy and effectiveness of the method a unified system of sustainable medical healthcare supply chain model with an uncertain figure of product complaints is used.Time,quality and cost are considered as satisfaction level to choose best supplier for medicine procurement.The proposed model ensures 99%satisfaction for cost reduction,63%satisfaction for the quality of product and 64%satisfaction for total time taken in medicine supply chain.

基于犹豫模糊集距离测度的城市营商环境评价

作为地区综合发展能力的重要体现,营商环境能够充分反映一个地区的经济发展能力和综合竞争能力,受到人们的广泛关注。优质的营商环境可以为企业发展提供便利的外部条件,有利于促进地方经济高速、高效发展。针对目前营商环境评价问题,构建包含市场环境、政务环境、法治环境、人文环境、生态环境等5个一级指标的评价体系;采用犹豫模糊集距离测度的方法,构建营商环境评价模型,对营商环境进行评价;最后以四地为例,证实该方法的可行性和有效性,旨为有针对性地优化城市营商环境提供理论基础和借鉴。

Some new distance measures for type-2 fuzzy sets and distance measure based ranking for group decision making problems

In this paper, we propose some distance measures between type-2 fuzzy sets, and also a new family of utmost distance measures are presented. Several properties of differ- ent proposed distance measures have been introduced. Also, we have introduced a new ranking method for the ordering of type-2 fuzzy sets based on the proposed distance measure. The proposed ranking method satisfies the reasonable prop- erties for the ordering of fuzzy quantities. Some properties such as robustness, order relation have been presented. Lim- itations of existing ranking methods have been studied. Fur- ther for practical use, a new method for selecting the best alternative, for group decision making problems is proposed. This method is illustrated with a numerical example.

Target Priority Determination Methods by Interval-Valued Intuitionistic Fuzzy Sets with Unknown Attribute Weights

The paper aims at the problem of multi-targets threat degree being hard to be evaluated accurately in complex air defense battlefield environments. Combined with multi-sensors information fusion and interval-valued intuitionistic fuzzy sets(IVIFS) theories, the target priority determination is studied. The score and accuracy functions of IVIFS are improved with thinking about the hesitating information in order to increase the rationality.Then, the influence factors of target priority and the nonlinear relationship between the influence factors and target priority are analyzed. Next, the algorithms for calculating the factor weights and sensor weights are given. Based on the theory of IVIFS and technique for order preference by similarity to an ideal solution(TOPSIS), two methods of target priority determination based on the IVIFS and TOPSIS are proposed. At last, an application example verifies the effectiveness and flexibility of the proposed algorithms.

Comments on ＂Some new distance measures for type-2 fuzzy sets and distance measure based ranking for group decision making problems＂

In this article, we have pointed out that some propositions corresponding to the distance measure between the type-2 fuzzy sets （T2FSs） as provided by Singh （Frontiers of Computer Science, 2014, 8（5）, 741-752）, are incorrect by a counterexample. Further, these propositions have been corrected in the present manuscript by giving a correct relation between the T2FSs and validating it with a numerical example.

犹豫模糊距离测度分析及其在决策层融合识别中的应用

现有的犹豫模糊距离测度大多数受犹豫模糊数隶属度个数延拓补值和顺序重排条件的限制,在一定条件下导致度量结果不准确.为此,本文提出基于距离矩阵的犹豫模糊距离测度,分析了现有犹豫模糊比较法则的局限性,定义了新的全序比较法则;提出了距离矩阵概念,合理解释了现有犹豫模糊距离测度的不足.结合犹豫模糊新比较法则、新提出的特征距离、前景理论和集成算子,形成了CDPA(Comparison,Distance,Prospect,Aggregation)识别决策新方法,并应用于决策层融合识别解决目标威胁判定问题.结果表明,该距离测度能够解决延拓补值和顺序重排的问题,识别准确.