A distance measure, similarity measure and possibility degree for hesitant interval-valued fuzzy sets

As the extension of the Fuzzy sets (FSs) theory, the Interval-valued Pythagorean Fuzzy Sets (IVPFS) was introduced which play an important role in handling the uncertainty. The Pythagorean fuzzy sets (PFSs) proposed by Yager in 2013 can deal with more uncertain situations than intuitionistic fuzzy sets because of its larger range of describing the membership grades. How to measure the distance of Interval-valued Pythagorean fuzzy sets is still an open issue. Jensen–Shannon divergence is a useful distance measure in the probability distribution space. In order to efficiently deal with uncertainty in practical applications, this paper proposes a new divergence measure of Interval-valued Pythagorean fuzzy sets,which is based on the belief function in Dempster–Shafer evidence theory, and is called IVPFSDM distance. It describes the Interval-Valued Pythagorean fuzzy sets in the form of basic probability assignments (BPAs) and calculates the divergence of BPAs to get the divergence of IVPFSs, which is the step in establishing a link between the IVPFSs and BPAs. Since the proposed method combines the characters of belief function and divergence, it has a more powerful resolution than other existing methods.

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Generalized Entropy and Similarity Measure for Interval-Valued Intuitionistic Fuzzy Sets With Application in Decision Making

International Journal of Fuzzy System Applications ◽

10.4018/ijfsa.2021010104 ◽

2021 ◽

Vol 10 (1) ◽

pp. 64-93

Author(s):

Pratiksha Tiwari

Keyword(s):

Decision Making ◽

Fuzzy Sets ◽

Similarity Measure ◽

Extended Family ◽

Similarity Measures ◽

Intuitionistic Fuzzy Sets ◽

Optimal Point ◽

Generalized Entropy ◽

Intuitionistic Fuzzy ◽

Interval Valued

Interval-valued intuitionistic fuzzy environment is appropriate for most of the practical scenarios involving uncertainty, vagueness, and insufficient information. Entropy, similarity, distance, inclusion, and cross entropy measures are a few methods used for measuring uncertainty and classifying fuzzy sets and its generalizations. Entropy of a fuzzy set describes fuzziness degree of the set and similarity measure measures similarity between two fuzzy or members of its extended family. This paper presents generalized entropy and similarity measures for interval-valued intuitionistic fuzzy sets. Further, the proposed similarity measure is compared with some existing measure of similarity with the help of an illustrative example, and a method is used to define optimal point using the existing information. Finally, entropy and similarity measures are used to identify best alternatives to solve multi-attribute decision making.

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