The purpose of this paper is to study a fuzzy multipurpose decision making problem, where the information about the alternatives provided by the experts can be of a diverse nature. The information can be represented by means of preference orderings, utility functions and fuzzy preference relations, and our objective is to establish general models which cover all possible representations. Firstl...

The concept of dual hesitant fuzzy sets (DHFSs), which was first introduced as a new extension of fuzzy sets and hesitant fuzzy sets in 2012, is a useful tool to deal with the vagueness and ambiguity in many practical problems under hesitant fuzzy environment. Normally, we use the definition of distance to describe the relationship of two DHFSs. However, considering that the existing distance m...

The Maclaurin symmetric mean (MSM) was originally introduced by Maclaurin. The prominent characteristic of the MSM is that it can capture the interrelationship among the multi-input arguments. However, the researches on MSM are very rare, especially in fuzzy decision making. In this paper, we investigate the MSM operator and extend the MSM operator to hesitant fuzzy environment and develop the ...

The purpose of this paper is to study a fuzzy multipurpose decision making problem, where the information about the alternatives provided by the experts can be of a diverse nature. The information can be represented by means of preference orderings, utility functions and fuzzy preference relations, and our objective is to establish a general model which cover all possible representations. First...

In recent decades, several types of sets, such as fuzzy sets, interval-valued fuzzy sets, intuitionistic fuzzy sets, interval-valued intuitionistic fuzzy sets, type 2 fuzzy sets, type n fuzzy sets, and hesitant fuzzy sets, have been introduced and investigated widely. In this paper, we propose dual hesitant fuzzy sets DHFSs , which encompass fuzzy sets, intuitionistic fuzzy sets, hesitant fuzzy...

In this paper we introduce the notion of interval valued hesitant fuzzy soft topological space. Also the concepts of interval valued hesitant fuzzy soft closure; interior and neighbourhood are introduced here and established some important results.

In order to be prepared against potential balance-breaking risks affecting economic development, more and more countries have recognized emergency response solutions evaluation (ERSE) as an indispensable activity in their governance of sustainable development. Traditional multiple criteria group decision making (MCGDM) approaches to ERSE have been facing simultaneous challenging characteristics...

As a combination of the hesitant fuzzy set (HFS) and the single valued neutrosophic set (SVNS), the single valued neutrosophic hesitant fuzzy set (SVNHFS) is an important concept to handle uncertain and vague information existing in real-life, which consists of three membership functions including hesitancy, as the truth-hesitancy membership function, the indeterminacy-hesitancy membership func...

Complete pre-orders can be characterized in terms of the transitivity of the corresponding strict preference and indifference relations. In this paper, we investigate this characterization in a fuzzy setting. We consider two types of completeness (weak completeness and strong completeness) and decompose a fuzzy pre-order by means of an indifference generator, in particular a Frank t-norm. In th...