Fuzzy linguistic quantifiers – operators intended to model vague quantifying expressions in natural language like “almost all” or “few” – have gained importance as operators for information combination and data summarisation. They are particularly appealing because of their ease-of-use: people are familiar with these operators, which can be applied for technical aggregation purposes in the same...

In healthcare settings, compliance with clinical protocols and medical guidelines is important to ensure high-quality, safe effective treatment of patients. How measure how represent information in an interpretable actionable way still open challenge. this paper, we propose new metrics for assessments. For purpose, use two fuzzy aggregation techniques, namely the OWA operator Sugeno integral. T...

Decision Making is a core area in different research fields related to human beings' intelligent activities; such activities involve different types of uncertainties depending on its nature. Therefore, different methods, models and formalisms have been investigated and applied to a wide range of decision making problems under uncertainty. This special issue is devoted to information fusion mode...

A novel intuitionistic fuzzy set (IFS) score function and an intuitionistic fuzzy preference relation (IFPR) quantifier guided non-dominance based prioritisation method are introduced. Based on Yager’s continuous OWA (COWA) operator, the interval-valued intuitionistic fuzzy COWA (IVIF-COWA) operator is defined, and a new attitudinal expected score function for interval-valued intuitionistic fuz...

The current complexity of supply chains (SC) activities requires the need for coordination between supply chains partners to maximize the efficiency. Considered by practitioners as one of the main SC coordination problems, this paper considers the strategic supplier selection problem. Fuzzy set is used in order to address the imprecision of supply chain partners in formulating the preferences v...

The ordered weighted averaging (OWA) operator by Yager has received more and more attention since its appearance. One key point in the OWA operator is to determine its associated weights. Among numerous methods that have appeared in the literature, we notice the maximum entropy OWA (MEOWA) weights that are determined by taking into account two appealing measures characterizing the OWA weights. ...

The definition of ordered weighted averaging (OWA) operators and their applications in decision making are reviewed. Also, some generalizations of OWA operators are studied and then, the notion of 2-symmetric OWA operators is introduced. These generalizations are illustrated by some examples.

The ordered weighted averaging (OWA) operator by Yager (IEEE Trans Syst Man Cybern 1988; 18; 183–190) has received much more attention since its appearance. One key point in the OWA operator is to determine its associated weights. Among numerous methods that have appeared in the literature, we notice the maximum entropy OWA (MEOWA) weights that are determined by taking into account two appealin...