Fuzzy multiple attributes group decision-making based on the ranking values and the arithmetic operations of interval type-2 fuzzy sets
Introduction
Many methods have been presented for handling fuzzy multiple attributes decision-making problems (Chen, 1988, Chen and Chen, 2003, Chen and Hwang, 1992, Fu, 2008, Hua et al., 2008, Lin et al., 2008, Hwang and Yoon, 1981, Wang and Chang, 2007, Yager and Xu, 2006). Chen and Hwang (1992) presented some methods for handling fuzzy multiple attributes decision-making problems. Chen (1988) presented a method for handling fuzzy multiple attributes decision-making problems based on the similarity measure between fuzzy sets. Fu (2008) presented a fuzzy optimization method for multi-criteria decision making. Hua et al. (2008) presented an approach for multi-attribute decision making problems with incomplete information. Hwang and Yoon (1981) presented the TOPSIS method for handling multiple attribute decision-making problems. Lin et al. (2008) presented a dynamic multi-attribute decision making model with grey number evaluations. Wang and Chang (2007) presented an application of TOPSIS in evaluating initial aircraft training under a fuzzy environment. Yager and Xu (2006) presented a continuous ordered weighted geometric operator and its application to decision-making. Moreover, some methods have been presented for handling fuzzy multiple attributes group decision-making problems (Chen, 2000; Chen, 2001; Lee & Chen, 2008; Lin & Wu, 2008; Tsabadze, 2006; Tsai & Wang, 2008). Chen (2000) extended the TOPSIS method to present a method to handle group decision-making problems in a fuzzy environment. Chen (2001) presented a method to evaluate the rate of aggregative risk in software development using the fuzzy set theory in the fuzzy group decision-making environment. Lin and Wu (2008) presented a causal analytical method for group decision-making in the fuzzy environment. Tsabadze (2006) presented a method for fuzzy aggregation based on group expert evaluations. Tsai and Wang (2008) presented a computing-coordination-based fuzzy group decision-making method for web service oriented architectures. However, the existing fuzzy multiple attributes group decision-making methods are based on traditional type-1 fuzzy sets (Zadeh, 1965). If we can use interval type-2 fuzzy sets (Mendel, John, & Liu, 2006) for handling fuzzy group decision-making problems, then there is room for more flexibility due to the fact that type-2 fuzzy sets provide more flexibility to represent uncertainties than traditional type-1 fuzzy sets (Zadeh, 1965).
In this paper, we present a new method for handling fuzzy multiple attributes group decision-making problems based on the ranking values and the arithmetic operations of interval type-2 fuzzy sets. First, we present the arithmetic operations between interval type-2 fuzzy sets. Then, we present a fuzzy ranking method to calculate the ranking values of interval type-2 fuzzy sets. We also make a comparison of the ranking values of the proposed method with the existing methods. Based on the proposed fuzzy ranking method and the proposed arithmetic operations between interval type-2 fuzzy sets, we present a new method to handle fuzzy multiple attributes group decision-making problems. The proposed method provide us with a useful way to handle fuzzy multiple attributes group decision-making problems in a more flexible and more intelligent manner due to the fact that it uses interval type-2 fuzzy sets rather than traditional type-1 fuzzy sets to represent the evaluating values and the weights of attributes.
The rest of this paper is organized as follows. In Section 2, we briefly review the definitions of interval type-2 fuzzy sets (Mendel et al., 2006). In Section 3, we present the arithmetic operations between trapezoidal interval type-2 fuzzy sets. In Section 4, we present a method for ranking interval type-2 fuzzy sets. In Section 5, we present a new method for handling fuzzy multiple attributes group decision-making problems based on the ranking values and the arithmetic operations of interval type-2 fuzzy sets. In Section 6, we use an example to illustrate the proposed method. The conclusions are discussed in Section 7.
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Basic concepts of interval type-2 fuzzy sets
Let be a type-1 trapezoidal fuzzy set, , as shown in Fig. 1, where denotes the membership value of the element denotes the membership value of the element and . If , then the type-1 fuzzy set becomes a triangular type-1 fuzzy set.
In the following, we briefly review some definitions of type-2 fuzzy sets and interval type-2 fuzzy sets from (Mendel et al., 2006). Definition 2.1 A type-2 fuzzy set in the universe of discourse X canMendel et al., 2006
Arithmetic operations between trapezoidal interval type-2 fuzzy sets
In this section, we briefly review the arithmetic operations between trapezoidal interval type-2 fuzzy sets we presented in (Lee & Chen, 2008). Definition 3.1 The addition operation between the trapezoidal interval type-2 fuzzy sets and is defined as follows:
Ranking values of trapezoidal interval type-2 fuzzy sets
In this section, we present a new method for calculating the ranking values of trapezoidal interval type-2 fuzzy sets. Let and be upper trapezoidal membership functions of the interval type-2 fuzzy sets and , respectively, as shown in Fig. 4, where and . In order to define the likelihood of , we define the strength of over by considering the difference
A new method for fuzzy multiple attributes group decision making
In this section, we present a new method for handling fuzzy multiple attributes group decision-making problems based on the proposed fuzzy ranking method and the proposed arithmetic operations between interval type-2 fuzzy sets. Assume that there is a set Z of alternatives and a set F of attributes, where and . Assume that there are k decision-makers and . The set F of attributes can be divided into two sets and , where denotes the set of benefit
Numerical example
In this section, we use an example to illustrate the proposed method. Table 2 shows the linguistic terms “Very Low” (VL), “Low” (L), “Medium Low” (ML), “Medium” (M), “Medium High” (MH), “High” (H), “Very High” (VH) and their corresponding interval type-2 fuzzy sets, respectively. Assume that there are three decision-makers and to evaluate cars, where there are three alternatives and four attributes (i.e., “Safety”, “Price”, “Appearance”, “Performance”), as shown in Table 3.
Conclusions
In this paper, we have presented a new method to handle fuzzy multiple attributes group decision-making problems based on the ranking values and the arithmetic operations of interval type-2 fuzzy sets. First, we present the arithmetic operations between interval type-2 fuzzy sets. Then, we present a fuzzy ranking method to calculate the ranking values of interval type-2 fuzzy sets. We also make a comparison of the ranking values of the proposed method with the existing methods. Based on the
Acknowledgement
This work was supported in part by the National Science Council, Republic of China, under Grant NSC 95-2221-E-011-116-MY2.
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