Multicriteria decision making approach using an efficient novel similarity measure for generalized trapezoidal fuzzy numbers

An improved similarity measure of generalized trapezoidal fuzzy numbers and its application in multi-attribute group decision making

Generalized trapezoidal fuzzy numbers (GTFNs) have been widely applied in uncertain decision-making problems. The similarity between GTFNs plays an important part in solving such problems, while there are some limitations in existing similarity measure methods. Thus, based on the cosine similarity, a novel similarity measure of GTFNs is developed which is combined with the concepts of geometric...

Multicriteria decision-making method based on a cosine similarity measure between trapezoidal fuzzy numbers

The degree of similarity or dissimilarity between the objects under study plays an important role. In vector space, especially, the cosine similarity measure is often used in information retrieval, citation analysis, and automatic classification. However, it scarcely deals with trapezoidal fuzzy information and multicriteria decision-making problems. For this purpose, a cosine similarity measur...

Ranking of generalized fuzzy numbers using distance measure and similarity measure

Trapezoidal/triangular intuitionistic fuzzy numbers versus interval-valued trapezoidal/triangular fuzzy numbers and applications to multicriteria decision making methods

We establish relationships between the set of trapezoidal intuitionistic fuzzy numbers and the set of interval-valued trapezoidal fuzzy numbers and, on the other hand, between the set of triangular intuitionistic fuzzy numbers and the set of triangular fuzzy numbers. Based on these main results of the paper, the methods or procedures elaborated for interval-valued trapezoidal or triangular fuzz...

Fuzzy Similarity Measure for Generalized Fuzzy Numbers

This paper proposes a new fuzzy similarity measure to calculate the degree of similarity of generalized fuzzy numbers (GFN’s).The fuzzy similarity measure is developed by integrating the concept of centre of gravity (COG) points and fuzzy difference of distance of points of fuzzy numbers. A fuzzy description for difference of distances between fuzzy numbers in its turn exploits appropriate simi...