An important issue to bear in mind in Group Decision Making situations is that of consistency. However, the expression of consistent preferences is often a very difficult task for the decision makers, specially in decision problems with a high number of alternatives and when decision makers use fuzzy preference relations to provide their opinions. It leads to situations where a decision maker m...

Fuzzy Description Logics (Fuzzy DLs) and fuzzy OWL have been proposed as languages able to represent and reason about imprecise and vague knowledge. Such extensions have gained considerable attention the last couple of years since on the one hand they are pivotal for applications that are inherently imprecise, like multimedia analysis and retrieval, geospatial applications and more, while on th...

The aim of this manuscript is to present a new concept of hesitant q-rung orthopair fuzzy sets (Hq-ROFSs) by combining the concept of the q-ROFSs as well as Hesitant fuzzy sets. The proposed concept is the generalization of the fuzzy sets, intuitionistic fuzzy sets, hesitant fuzzy sets, and Pythagorean fuzzy sets as well as intuitionistic hesitant fuzzy sets (IHFSs) and hesitant Pythagorean fuz...

Hesitant fuzzy linguistic term sets were introduced to grasp the uncertainty existing in human reasoning. In this paper, inspired by absolute order-of-magnitude qualitative reasoning techniques, an extension of the set of hesitant fuzzy linguistic term sets is presented to capture differences between non-compatible preferences. In addition, an order relation and two closed operations over this ...

We consider fuzzy constraint problems where some of the preferences may be unspecified. This models, for example, settings where agents are distributed and have privacy issues, or where there is an ongoing preference elicitation process. In this context, we study how to find an optimal solution without having to wait for all the preferences. In particular, we define local search algorithms that...

The Critical Path Method (CPM) is useful for planning and control of complex projects. The CPM identifies the critical activities in the critical path of an activity network. The successful implementation of CPM requires the availability of clear determined time duration for each activity. However, in practical situations this requirement is usually hard to fulfill since many of activities will...

This paper studies by means of reciprocal fuzzy binary relations the aggregation of preferences when individuals show their preferences gradually. We have characterized neutral aggregation rules through functions from powers of the unit interval in the unit interval. Furthermore, we have determined the neutral aggregation rules that are decomposable and anonymous. In this class of rules, the co...

Aimed at the problem of the classical ontology cannot represent the imprecision and uncertainty information, firstly, the ambiguity and uncertainty of fuzzy information was analyzed, and the fuzzy concept relationship was expressed by using fuzzy membership function. And then, the user interest estimation based on behavior was studied in term of user’s learning preferences, and user profile was...

Fuzzy portfolio models have received many researchers’ focus on the issue of risk preferences. The based guaranteed return rates has been developing and considering dimension excess investment for investors in different However, not only but also shortage to selected should be considered preferences, including risk-seeking, risk-neutral, risk-averse, by degrees dimensions investment. A comparis...

abstract purpose of this paper: the objectives of this paper are two folds: (1) utilizing hierarchical fuzzy technique for order preference by similarity to ideal solution (topsis) approach to evaluate the most suitable rfid-based systems decision, and (2) to highlight key risks and benefits of radio frequency identification technology in healthcare industry. design/methodology/approach: resear...