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Measuring the Amount of Knowledge for Atanassov’s Intuitionistic Fuzzy Sets

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Fuzzy Logic and Applications (WILF 2011)

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We address the problem of how to measure amount of knowledge conveyed by an Atanassov’s intuitionistic fuzzy set (A-IFS for short). The problem is useful from the point of view of a specific purpose, notably related to decision making. An amount of knowledge is strongly linked to its related amount of information. We pay particular attention to the relationship between the positive and negative information and a lack of information expressed by the hesitation margin.

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  1. Systems Research Institute, Polish Academy of Sciences, ul. Newelska 6, 01–447, Warsaw, Poland

    Eulalia Szmidt, Janusz Kacprzyk & Paweł Bujnowski

  2. Warsaw School of Information Technology, ul. Newelska 6, 01-447, Warsaw, Poland

    Eulalia Szmidt, Janusz Kacprzyk & Paweł Bujnowski

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  1. Computer Science Department, University of Bari, Via E. Orabona, 4, 70125, Bari, Italy

    Anna Maria Fanelli

  2. Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Alberta, T6G 2V4, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada

    Witold Pedrycz

  3. Department of Apllied Science, University of Naples Parthenope, Centro Direzionale Is. C4, 80143, Naples, Italy

    Alfredo Petrosino

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Szmidt, E., Kacprzyk, J., Bujnowski, P. (2011). Measuring the Amount of Knowledge for Atanassov’s Intuitionistic Fuzzy Sets. In: Fanelli, A.M., Pedrycz, W., Petrosino, A. (eds) Fuzzy Logic and Applications. WILF 2011. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 6857. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-23713-3_3

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