scholarly journals Improved Cross Entropy Measures of Single Valued Neutrosophic Sets and Interval Neutrosophic Sets and Their Multicriteria Decision Making Methods

2015 ◽  
Vol 15 (4) ◽  
pp. 13-26 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jun Ye

Abstract Due to some drawbacks of the cross entropy between Single Valued Neutrosophic Sets (SVNSs) in dealing with decision-making problems, the existing single valued neutrosophic cross entropy indicates an asymmetrical phenomenon or may produce an undefined (unmeaningful) phenomenon in some situations. In order to overcome these disadvantages, this paper proposes an improved cross entropy measure of SVNSs and investigates its properties, and then extends it to a cross entropy measure between interval neutrosophic sets (INSs). Furthermore, the cross entropy measures are applied to multicriteria decision making problems with single valued neutrosophic information and interval neutrosophic information. In decision making methods, through the weighted cross entropy measure between each alternative and the the ideal alternative, one can obtain the ranking order of all alternatives and the best one. The decision-making methods using the proposed cross entropy measures can efficiently deal with decision making problems with incomplete, indeterminate and inconsistent information which exist usually in real situations. Finally, two illustrative examples are provided to demonstrate the application and efficiency of the developed decision making approaches under single valued neutrosophic and interval neutrosophic environments.

2016 ◽  
Vol 859 ◽  
pp. 129-143 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ilanthenral Kandasamy ◽  
Florentin Smarandache

Double Refined Indeterminacy Neutrosophic Set (DRINS) is an inclusive case of the refined neutrosophic set, defined by Smarandache (2013), which provides the additional possibility to represent with sensitivity and accuracy the uncertain, imprecise, incomplete, and inconsistent information which are available in real world. More precision is provided in handling indeterminacy; by classifying indeterminacy (I) into two, based on membership; as indeterminacy leaning towards truth membership (IT) and indeterminacy leaning towards false membership (IF). This kind of classification of indeterminacy is not feasible with the existing Single Valued Neutrosophic Set (SVNS), but it is a particular case of the refined neutrosophic set (where each T, I, F can be refined into T1, T2, ...; I1, I2, ...; F1, F2, ...). DRINS is better equipped at dealing indeterminate and inconsistent information, with more accuracy than SVNS, which fuzzy sets and Intuitionistic Fuzzy Sets (IFS) are incapable of. Based on the cross entropy of neutrosophic sets, the cross entropy of DRINSs, known as Double Refined Indeterminacy neutrosophic cross entropy, is proposed in this paper. This proposed cross entropy is used for a multicriteria decision-making problem, where the criteria values for alternatives are considered under a DRINS environment. Similarly, an indeterminacy based cross entropy using DRINS is also proposed. The double valued neutrosophic weighted cross entropy and indeterminacy based cross entropy between the ideal alternative and an alternative is obtained and utilized to rank the alternatives corresponding to the cross entropy values. The most desirable one(s) in decision making process is selected. An illustrative example is provided to demonstrate the application of the proposed method. A brief comparison of the proposed method with the existing methods is carried out.


2014 ◽  
Vol 2014 ◽  
pp. 1-15 ◽  
Author(s):  
Hong-yu Zhang ◽  
Jian-qiang Wang ◽  
Xiao-hong Chen

As a generalization of fuzzy sets and intuitionistic fuzzy sets, neutrosophic sets have been developed to represent uncertain, imprecise, incomplete, and inconsistent information existing in the real world. And interval neutrosophic sets (INSs) have been proposed exactly to address issues with a set of numbers in the real unit interval, not just a specific number. However, there are fewer reliable operations for INSs, as well as the INS aggregation operators and decision making method. For this purpose, the operations for INSs are defined and a comparison approach is put forward based on the related research of interval valued intuitionistic fuzzy sets (IVIFSs) in this paper. On the basis of the operations and comparison approach, two interval neutrosophic number aggregation operators are developed. Then, a method for multicriteria decision making problems is explored applying the aggregation operators. In addition, an example is provided to illustrate the application of the proposed method.


Author(s):  
Shapu Ren

A single valued neutrosophic set (SVNS) is a subclass of neutrosophic sets, which generalizes fuzzy sets, interval valued fuzzy set, and intuitionistic fuzzy set. It can be used to easily express incomplete, indeterminate and inconsistent information. This paper introduces the Dice similarity measure of single valued neutrosophic numbers (SVNNs) for ranking SVNNs and a single valued neutrosophic prioritized weighted geometric (SVNPWG) operator for aggregating single valued neutrosophic information. Based on the SVNPWG operator and the Dice similarity measure for SVNNs, a multicriteria decision-making method with different priority levels in the criteria is established in which the evaluation values of alternatives with respective to criteria are represented in the form of SVNNs. The ranking order of alternatives is performed through the Dice measure and the best one(s) can be determined as well. Finally, an illustrative example shows the application of the proposed method.


Entropy ◽  
2018 ◽  
Vol 20 (11) ◽  
pp. 844 ◽  
Author(s):  
Wen-Hua Cui ◽  
Jun Ye

In order to quantify the fuzziness in the simplified neutrosophic setting, this paper proposes a generalized distance-based entropy measure and a dimension root entropy measure of simplified neutrosophic sets (NSs) (containing interval-valued and single-valued NSs) and verifies their properties. Then, comparison with the existing relative interval-valued NS entropy measures through a numerical example is carried out to demonstrate the feasibility and rationality of the presented generalized distance-based entropy and dimension root entropy measures of simplified NSs. Lastly, a decision-making example is presented to illustrate their applicability, and then the decision results indicate that the presented entropy measures are effective and reasonable. Hence, this study enriches the simplified neutrosophic entropy theory and measure approaches.


2018 ◽  
Vol 2018 ◽  
pp. 1-10 ◽  
Author(s):  
Tabasam Rashid ◽  
Shahzad Faizi ◽  
Sohail Zafar

Fuzzy entropy means the measurement of fuzziness in a fuzzy set and therefore plays a vital role in solving the fuzzy multicriteria decision making (MCDM) and multicriteria group decision making (MCGDM) problems. In this study, the notion of the measure of distance based entropy for uncertain information in the context of interval-valued intuitionistic fuzzy set (IVIFS) is introduced. The arithmetic and geometric average operators are firstly used to aggregate the interval-valued intuitionistic fuzzy information provided by the decision makers (DMs) or experts corresponding to each alternative, and then the fuzzy entropy of each alternative is calculated based on proposed distance measure. Several numerical examples are solved to demonstrate the application to MCDM and MCGDM problems to show the effectiveness of the proposed approach.


2021 ◽  
Vol 2021 ◽  
pp. 1-26
Author(s):  
Xiao-Hui Wu ◽  
Lin Yang ◽  
Jie Qian

Personnel selection is a key important role for the human resource department of organization, and hesitant picture fuzzy linguistic sets (HPFLSs) elaborated the advantages of both hesitant linguistic set and picture fuzzy set, which is more flexible and effective to solve the decision-making problems of personnel selection than other extension of fuzzy linguistic sets (FLSs). Cross-entropy, as effective measurement tools, is wildly used under fuzzy multicriteria decision-making (FMCDM) environment; thus, in order to elaborate the advantages of both cross-entropy and HPFLSs under FMCDM environment, the cross-entropy definition of HPFLSs is firstly given in this paper. Meanwhile, several novel cross-entropy measures between two HPFLSs are introduced, and their related properties are proved. Then, an approach based on the weighted cross-entropy measures and TOPSIS under hesitant picture fuzzy linguistic environment is proposed. Finally, the proposed method is applied to the real personnel’s selection, and the ranking results show that the proposed methods are practical and effective.


Author(s):  
Jun Ye

This paper proposes a cross-entropy measure between dual hesitant fuzzy sets (DHFSs) as an extension of the cross-entropy measures of intuitionistic fuzzy sets. Then the cross-entropy measure between DHFSs is applied to multiple attribute decision making under dual hesitant fuzzy environments. Through the weighted cross-entropy measure between each alternative and the ideal alternative, we can obtain the ranking order of all alternatives and the best one. The decision-making method based on the cross-entropy measure of DHFSs can deal with dual hesitant fuzzy multiple attribute decision making problems and can automatically take into account much more information than existing hesitant (or intuitionistic) fuzzy decision-making methods and the differences of the evaluation data given by different experts or decision makers. Finally, a practical example about investment alternatives is given to demonstrate the application and effectiveness of the developed approach.


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