101 research outputs found
The legacy of 50 years of fuzzy sets: A discussion
International audienceThis note provides a brief overview of the main ideas and notions underlying fifty years of research in fuzzy set and possibility theory, two important settings introduced by L.A. Zadeh for representing sets with unsharp boundaries and uncertainty induced by granules of information expressed with words. The discussion is organized on the basis of three potential understanding of the grades of membership to a fuzzy set, depending on what the fuzzy set intends to represent: a group of elements with borderline members, a plausibility distribution, or a preference profile. It also questions the motivations for some existing generalized fuzzy sets. This note clearly reflects the shared personal views of its authors
A New Similarity Measure between Intuitionistic Fuzzy Sets and Its Application to Pattern Recognition
As a generation of ordinary fuzzy set, the concept of intuitionistic fuzzy set (IFS), characterized both by a membership degree and by a nonmembership degree, is a more flexible way to cope with the uncertainty. Similarity measures of intuitionistic fuzzy sets are used to indicate the similarity degree between intuitionistic fuzzy sets. Although many similarity measures for intuitionistic fuzzy sets have been proposed in previous studies, some of those cannot satisfy the axioms of similarity or provide counterintuitive cases. In this paper, a new similarity measure and weighted similarity measure between IFSs are proposed. It proves that the proposed similarity measures satisfy the properties of the axiomatic definition for similarity measures. Comparison between the previous similarity measures and the proposed similarity measure indicates that the proposed similarity measure does not provide any counterintuitive cases. Moreover, it is demonstrated that the proposed similarity measure is capable of discriminating difference between patterns
The posterity of Zadeh's 50-year-old paper: A retrospective in 101 Easy Pieces – and a Few More
International audienceThis article was commissioned by the 22nd IEEE International Conference of Fuzzy Systems (FUZZ-IEEE) to celebrate the 50th Anniversary of Lotfi Zadeh's seminal 1965 paper on fuzzy sets. In addition to Lotfi's original paper, this note itemizes 100 citations of books and papers deemed “important (significant, seminal, etc.)” by 20 of the 21 living IEEE CIS Fuzzy Systems pioneers. Each of the 20 contributors supplied 5 citations, and Lotfi's paper makes the overall list a tidy 101, as in “Fuzzy Sets 101”. This note is not a survey in any real sense of the word, but the contributors did offer short remarks to indicate the reason for inclusion (e.g., historical, topical, seminal, etc.) of each citation. Citation statistics are easy to find and notoriously erroneous, so we refrain from reporting them - almost. The exception is that according to Google scholar on April 9, 2015, Lotfi's 1965 paper has been cited 55,479 times
A multi criteria group decision making approach based on fuzzy measure theory to assess the different gene regions used in rodent species
Many mitochondrial and nuclear gene regions are used in phylogenetic and taxonomic studies to investigate the historical background of the species and to present the hierarchy of the species. In this paper, we consider the problem of proposing a favorable gene region that determines the diversification of rodent species as a multi criteria group decision making problem. We use fuzzy measure theory and fuzzy integrals to get the results. We conclude with different fuzzy measures and fuzzy integral techniques that COI gene region which is preferred in animal barcoding studies is more favorable.Publisher's Versio
Fuzzy Logic in Decision Support: Methods, Applications and Future Trends
During the last decades, the art and science of fuzzy logic have witnessed significant developments and have found applications in many active areas, such as pattern recognition, classification, control systems, etc. A lot of research has demonstrated the ability of fuzzy logic in dealing with vague and uncertain linguistic information. For the purpose of representing human perception, fuzzy logic has been employed as an effective tool in intelligent decision making. Due to the emergence of various studies on fuzzy logic-based decision-making methods, it is necessary to make a comprehensive overview of published papers in this field and their applications. This paper covers a wide range of both theoretical and practical applications of fuzzy logic in decision making. It has been grouped into five parts: to explain the role of fuzzy logic in decision making, we first present some basic ideas underlying different types of fuzzy logic and the structure of the fuzzy logic system. Then, we make a review of evaluation methods, prediction methods, decision support algorithms, group decision-making methods based on fuzzy logic. Applications of these methods are further reviewed. Finally, some challenges and future trends are given from different perspectives. This paper illustrates that the combination of fuzzy logic and decision making method has an extensive research prospect. It can help researchers to identify the frontiers of fuzzy logic in the field of decision making
Strict Intuitionistic Fuzzy Distance/Similarity Measures Based on Jensen-Shannon Divergence
Being a pair of dual concepts, the normalized distance and similarity
measures are very important tools for decision-making and pattern recognition
under intuitionistic fuzzy sets framework. To be more effective for
decision-making and pattern recognition applications, a good normalized
distance measure should ensure that its dual similarity measure satisfies the
axiomatic definition. In this paper, we first construct some examples to
illustrate that the dual similarity measures of two nonlinear distance measures
introduced in [A distance measure for intuitionistic fuzzy sets and its
application to pattern classification problems, \emph{IEEE Trans. Syst., Man,
Cybern., Syst.}, vol.~51, no.~6, pp. 3980--3992, 2021] and [Intuitionistic
fuzzy sets: spherical representation and distances, \emph{Int. J. Intell.
Syst.}, vol.~24, no.~4, pp. 399--420, 2009] do not meet the axiomatic
definition of intuitionistic fuzzy similarity measure. We show that (1) they
cannot effectively distinguish some intuitionistic fuzzy values (IFVs) with
obvious size relationship; (2) except for the endpoints, there exist infinitely
many pairs of IFVs, where the maximum distance 1 can be achieved under these
two distances; leading to counter-intuitive results. To overcome these
drawbacks, we introduce the concepts of strict intuitionistic fuzzy distance
measure (SIFDisM) and strict intuitionistic fuzzy similarity measure (SIFSimM),
and propose an improved intuitionistic fuzzy distance measure based on
Jensen-Shannon divergence. We prove that (1) it is a SIFDisM; (2) its dual
similarity measure is a SIFSimM; (3) its induced entropy is an intuitionistic
fuzzy entropy. Comparative analysis and numerical examples demonstrate that our
proposed distance measure is completely superior to the existing ones
Spatial Metric Space for Pattern Recognition Problems
The definition of weighted distance measure involves weights. The paper
proposes a weighted distance measure without the help of weights. Here, weights
are intrinsically added to the measure, and for this, the concept of metric
space is generalized based on a novel divided difference operator. The proposed
operator is used over a two-dimensional sequence of bounded variation, and it
generalizes metric space with the introduction of a multivalued metric space
called spatial metric space. The environment considered for the study is a
two-dimensional Atanassov intuitionistic fuzzy set (AIFS) under the assumption
that membership and non-membership components are its independent variables.
The weighted distance measure is proposed as a spatial distance measure in the
spatial metric space. The spatial distance measure consists of three branches.
In the first branch, there is a domination of membership values, non-membership
values dominate the second branch, and the third branch is equidominant. The
domination of membership and non-membership values are not in the form of
weights in the proposed spatial distance measure, and hence it is a measure
independent of weights. The proposed spatial metric space is mathematically
studied, and as an implication, the spatial similarity measure is multivalued
in nature. The spatial similarity measure can recognize a maximum of three
patterns simultaneously. The spatial similarity measure is tested for the
pattern recognition problems and the obtained classification results are
compared with some other existing similarity measures to show its potency. This
study connects the double sequence to the application domain via a divided
difference operator for the first time while proposing a novel divided
difference operator-based spatial metric space.Comment: 2
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A method to multi-attribute decision making with picture fuzzy information based on Muirhead mean
The recently proposed picture fuzzy set (PFS) is a powerful tool for handling fuzziness and uncertainty. PFS is character-ized by a positive membership degree, a neutral membership degree, and a negative membership degree, making it more suitable and useful than the intuitionistic fuzzy set (IFS) when dealing with multi-attribute decision making (MADM). The aim of this paper is to develop some aggregation operators for fusing picture fuzzy information. Considering the Muirhead mean (MM) is an aggregation technology which can consider the interrelationship among all aggregated ar-guments, we extend MM to picture fuzzy context and propose a family of picture fuzzy Muirhead mean operators. In addition, we investigate some properties and special cases of the proposed operators. Further, we develop a novel meth-od to MADM in which the attribute values take the form of picture fuzzy numbers (PFNs). Finally, a numerical example is provided to illustrate the validity of the proposed method
Intuitionistic fuzzy Einstein Choquet integral operators for multiple attribute decision making
In this paper, we propose some new aggregation operators which are based on the Choquet integral and Einstein operations. The operators not only consider the importance of the elements or their ordered positions, but also consider the interactions phenomena among the decision making criteria or their ordered positions. It is shown that the proposed operators generalize several intuitionistic fuzzy Einstein aggregation operators. Moreover, some of their properties are investigated. We also study the relationship between the proposed operators and the existing intuitionistic fuzzy Choquet aggregation operators. Furthermore, an approach based on intuitionistic fuzzy Einstein Choquet integral operators is presented for multiple attribute decision-making problem. Finally, a practical decision making problem involving the water resource management is given to illustrate the multiple attribute decision making process
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