Since its birth in 1993, fuzzy time series have seen different classes of models designed and applied, such as fuzzy logic relation and rule-based models. These models have both advantages and disadvantages. The major drawbacks with these two classes of models are the difficulties encountered in identification and analysis of the model. Therefore, there is a strong need to explore new alternati...

The new concept of a Z – number has been recently introduced in decision making analysis. This concept is capable of effectively dealing with uncertainty in information about a decision. As this concept is relatively new in fuzzy sets, its underlying theoretical aspects have not been established yet. In this paper, a multi-layer methodology for ranking Z – numbers is proposed for the first time...

In this paper we describe the open source data analytics platform KNIME, focusing particularly on extensions and modules supporting fuzzy sets and fuzzy learning algorithms such as fuzzy clustering algorithms, rule induction methods, and interactive clustering tools. In addition we outline a number of experimental extensions, which are not yet part of the open source release and present two ill...

We consider linear equality systems where all the parameters may be fuzzy variables specified by their possibility distribution, the operations addition and multiplication by a real number of fuzzy parameters are defined via a suptriangular norm composition, and the equations are understood in possibilistic sense. We show that when the triangular norm defining the operations and equations is co...

In this paper, a novel real number encoding method of Particle Swarm Optimization (PSO) for Vehicle Routing Problem is proposed. Objective is to solve the vehicle routing problem with fuzzy demands (FVRP) ,in FVRP, a fuzzy chance constrained program model is designed, based on fuzzy credibility theory. Firstly construct a suitable mapping between problem solution and PSO particle, and adopted a...

the importance as well as the diculty of the problem of ranking fuzzy numbers is pointed out. here we consider approaches to the ranking of fuzzy numbers based upon the idea of associating with a fuzzy number a scalar value, its signal/noise ratios, where the signal and the noise are dened as the middle-point and the spread of each a-cut of a fuzzy number, respectively. we use the value of a ...

in some multi-attribute decision making (madm) problems, various relationships among the decision attributes should be considered. this paper investigates the prioritization relationship of attributes in madm with trapezoidal intuitionistic fuzzy numbers (trifns). trifns are a special intuitionistic fuzzy set on a real number set and have the better capability to model ill-known quantities. fir...

In this paper, we axiomatically introduce fuzzy multi-measures on bounded lattices. In particular, we make a distinction between four different types of fuzzy set multi-measures on a universe X, considering both the usual or inverse real number ordering of this lattice and increasing or decreasing monotonicity with respect to the number of arguments. We provide results from which we can derive ...

In this paper, a new hypothesis of fuzzy number has been proposed which is more precise and direct. This approach considered as an equivalence class on set real numbers R with its algebraic structure properties along theoretical study computational results. Newly defined provides well-structured summary that offers both deeper knowledge about the theory extensive view algebra. We field newly op...

As a generalization of fuzzy sets and intuitionistic fuzzy sets, neutrosophic sets have been developed to represent uncertain, imprecise, incomplete, and inconsistent information existing in the real world. And interval neutrosophic sets (INSs) have been proposed exactly to address issues with a set of numbers in the real unit interval, not just a specific number. However, there are fewer relia...