Distance-based Knowledge measure of Hesitant Fuzzy Linguistic Term Set with its application in Multi-criteria decision-making

2022 ◽  
Vol 11 (1) ◽  
pp. 0-0

Motivated by the structural aspect of the probabilistic entropy, the concept of fuzzy entropy enabled the researchers to investigate the uncertainty due to vague information. Fuzzy entropy measures the ambiguity/vagueness entailed in a fuzzy set. Hesitant fuzzy entropy and hesitant fuzzy linguistic term set based entropy presents a more comprehensive evaluation of vague information. In the vague situations of multiple-criteria decision-making, entropy measure is utilized to compute the objective weights of attributes. The weights obtained due to entropy measures are not reasonable in all the situations. To model such situation, a knowledge measure is very significant, which is a structural dual to entropy. A fuzzy knowledge measure determines the level of precision in a fuzzy set. This article introduces the concept of a knowledge measure for hesitant fuzzy linguistic term sets (HFLTS) and show how it may be derived from HFLTS distance measures. Authors also investigate its application in determining the weights of criteria in multi-criteria decision-making (MCDM).

Author(s):  
Na Zhao ◽  
Zeshui Xu ◽  
Zhiliang Ren

The purpose of this paper is to investigate the methods of constructing distance measures for hesitant fuzzy linguistic term sets (HFLTSs) and their applications in multi-criteria decision-making (MCDM). We first present some methods to construct distance measures for HFLTSs. Then, we discuss the properties of different distance measures in detail, which are very helpful in comparison of these distance measures for HFLTSs. After that, based upon the distance measures for HFLTSs, a decision-making method is proposed to solve the MCDM problems, in which the assessment values of alternatives over criteria are HFLTSs and the weights of criteria are completely unknown or expressed by HFLTSs. Finally, an example concerning the evaluation of movie quality is provided to demonstrate the practicability of the proposed method, and necessary comparative analyses are conducted to illustrate the effectiveness and advantages of the developed distance measures and the proposed decision-making method.


2020 ◽  
Vol 20 (1) ◽  
pp. 3-20 ◽  
Author(s):  
Surender Singh ◽  
Sumita Lalotra ◽  
Abdul Haseeb Ganie

AbstractTo overcome the certain limitations of Intuitionistic Fuzzy Sets (IFSs), the notion of Intuitionistic Fuzzy Sets of Second Type (IFSST) was introduced. IFSST is a modified version of IFS for handling some problems in a reasonable manner. Type two Intuitionistic Fuzzy entropy (IFSST-entropy) measures the amount of ambiguity/uncertainty present in an IFSST. In the present paper, we introduce the concept of dual measure of IFSST-entropy, i.e., IFSST-knowledge measure. We develop some IFSST-knowledge measures and prove some of their properties. We also show the superiority of the proposed IFSST-knowledge measures through comparative study. Further, we demonstrate the application of the proposed knowledge measures in Multi-Criteria Decision-Making (MCDM).


2015 ◽  
Vol 86 ◽  
pp. 224-236 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jing Wang ◽  
Jian-qiang Wang ◽  
Hong-yu Zhang ◽  
Xiao-hong Chen

Mekatronika ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 3 (1) ◽  
pp. 18-25
Author(s):  
Omar Ayasrah ◽  
Faiz Mohd Turan

The aim of this research is to develop a new multi-criteria decision-making method that integrates an intuitionistic fuzzy entropy measure and variable weight theory to be implemented in different fields to provide a solution for MCDM problems when the available information is incomplete. A limited number of studies have considered determining decision maker’s weights by performing objective techniques, and almost all of these researches detected a constant weights for the decision makers. In addition, most of the MCDM studies were not formulated to perform sensitivity analysis. The new method is based on the TOPSIS model with an intuitionistic fuzzy entropy measure in the exponential-related function form and the engagement of the variable weight theory to determine weights for the decision-makers that vary as per attibutes. Lastly, a mathematical model was developed in this research to be as an input for developing the mobile-aplication based method in future for virtual use of the new MCDM method.


Author(s):  
Cuiping Wei ◽  
Na Zhao ◽  
Xijin Tang

Hesitant fuzzy linguistic term set (HFLTS) is a set with ordered consecutive linguistic terms, and is very useful in addressing the situations where people are hesitant in providing their linguistic assessments. Wang [H. Wang, Extended hesitant fuzzy linguistic term sets and their aggregation in group decision making, International Journal of Computational Intelligence Systems 8(1) (2015) 14–33.] removed the consecutive condition to introduce the notion of extended HFLTS (EHFLTS). The generalized form has wider applications in linguistic group decision-making. By introducing distance measures for EHFLTSs, in this paper we develop a novel multi-criteria group decision making model to deal with hesitant fuzzy linguistic information. The model collects group linguistic information by using EHFLTSs and avoids the possible loss of information. Moreover, it can assess the importance weights of criteria according to their subjective and objective information and rank alternatives based on the rationale of TOPSIS. In order to illustrate the applicability of the proposed algorithm, two examples are given and comparisons are made with the other existing methods.


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.


2020 ◽  
Vol 23 (4) ◽  
pp. 119-136
Author(s):  
Huchang Liao ◽  
Ruxue Ren ◽  
Jurgita Antucheviciene ◽  
Jonas Šaparauskas ◽  
Abdullah Al-Barakati

Within the context of resource constraints and ecological environment imbalance, the adoption of green suppliers can help construction enterprises achieve sustainable development and improve their competitiveness. The selection of sustainable construction suppliers is a multi-criteria decision-making problem since multiple factors should be considered. The increasingly complex decision-making environment makes it difficult for evaluators to give accurate evaluation values. In this regard, the hesitant fuzzy linguistic term set is a qualitative evaluation tool to represent the comprehensive linguistic evaluation values of experts by considering the hesitancy behaviors of experts. In this paper, a scientific multi-criteria decision-making model based on the improved Stepwise Weight Assessment Ratio Analysis (SWARA) method and the double normalization-based multi-aggregation (DNMA) method in the hesitant fuzzy linguistic environment is proposed. A new distance measure is proposed to measure the differences between hesitant fuzzy linguistic term sets with different lengths without changing the original evaluation information of experts. The proposed distance measure is applied to the proposed multi-criteria decision-making model. After improving the calculation steps of the traditional SWARA method, we can determine the weights of criteria effectively through our proposed model. To verify the applicability of the proposed method, we implement it to select sustainable building suppliers. The effectiveness of the method is verified by sensitivity analysis. We also compare the results obtained by our method and those derived by the Weight Aggregated Sum Product ASsessment (WASPAS) method and the Technique for Order Preference by Similarity to an Ideal Solution (TOPSIS) method. The proposed method have a strong applicability to solve the sustainability-related decision problems given that it can effectively determine the weights of criteria and flexibly meet the needs of decision-makers by adjusting the coefficient.


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