Extending ARAS with Integration of Objective Attribute Weighting under Spherical Fuzzy Environment

Various fuzzy sets have been developed in the recent years to model the uncertainty in judgments. Spherical fuzzy set (SFS) concept is one of these developments. It can provide an extensive preference domain for decision-makers by allowing them to state their hesitancy more explicitly. The peculiarity of SFS is that the squared sum of membership, nonmembership, and hesitancy degrees should be between 0 and 1 while each is independently defined in [0, 1]. In this study, ARAS as one of the most applied multiple attribute decision-making approaches is extended into a spherical fuzzy environment. Entropy-based and OWA operator-based objective attribute weights are also integrated with the newly proposed spherical fuzzy ARAS for coping with the drawbacks of subjective weighting such as longer data collection time and manipulation risk. The applicability of the proposition is shown in a hypothetical example of a product design problem and its robustness is shown by a comparative analysis.

Weighting on waiting: Willpower and attribute weighting models of decision making

Willpower is often conceptualized as incorporating effortful and momentary suppression of immediate but ultimately inferior rewards. Yet, growing evidence instead supports a process of attribute weighting, whereby normatively optimal choices arise from separable evaluation of different attributes (e.g., time and money). Strategic allocation of attention settles conflicts between competing choice-relevant attributes, which could be expanded to include self-referential predictions (“resolve”).

Efficient Kernel Extreme Learning Machine and Neutrosophic C-means-based Attribute Weighting Method for Medical Data Classification

This paper proposes an integrated system neutrosophic C-means-based attribute weighting-kernel extreme learning machine (NCMAW-KELM) for medical data classification using NCM clustering and KELM. To do that, NCMAW is developed, and then combined with classification method in classification of medical data. The proposed approach contains two steps. In the first step, input attributes are weighted using NCMAW method. The purpose of the weighting method is twofold: (i) to improve the classification performance in the classification of the medical data, (ii) to transform from nonlinearly separable dataset to linearly separable dataset. Finally, KELM algorithm is used for medical data classification purpose. In KELM algorithm, four types of kernels, such as Polynomial, Sigmoid, Radial basis function and Linear, are used. The simulation result on our three datasets demonstrates that the sigmoid kernel is outperformed to ELM in most cases. From the results, NCMAW-KELM approach may be a promising method in medical data classification problem.