An interpretation of intuitionistic fuzzy sets in terms of evidence theory: Decision making aspect

Knowledge-Based Systems

Volumn 23, Issue 8, 2010, Pages 772-782

  Dymova, Ludmila ^a   Sevastjanov, Pavel ^a  

^a CZESTOCHOWA UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Poland)

Author keywords

Decision making; Dempster Shafer theory of evidence; Interval comparison; Intuitionistic fuzzy set; Intuitionistic DST approach

Indexed keywords

DECISION-MAKING PROBLEM; DEFUZZIFICATIONS; DEMPSTER'S RULE OF COMBINATION; DEMPSTER-SHAFER THEORY OF EVIDENCE; EVIDENCE THEORIES; INTERVAL COMPARISONS; INTUITIONISTIC FUZZY; INTUITIONISTIC FUZZY SETS; INTUITIONISTIC/DST APPROACH; MATHEMATICAL OPERATIONS; MULTIPLE CRITERIA DECISION-MAKING PROBLEMS;

DECISION MAKING; DECISION THEORY; FORMAL LOGIC; FUZZY SETS;

FUZZY SET THEORY;

EID: 77956341226     PISSN: 09507051     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.knosys.2010.04.014     Document Type: Article

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