Decider is a Fuzzy Hierarchical Multiple Criteria Group Decision Support System (FHMC-GDSS) designed for dealing with subjective, in particular linguistic, information and objective information simultaneously to support group decision making particularly on evaluation. In this chapter, the fuzzy aggregation decision model, functions and structure of Decider are introduced. The ideas to resolve ...

This paper presents a structured methodology for Information Systems (IS) outsourcing decision problem. The problem of selection among candidate information systems of the IS can be formulated as Multi criteria decision making (MCDM) techniques. Thus, this paper proposes a fuzzy group decision making process to evaluate and select the appropriate Information System Project (ISP) based on fuzzy ...

The facility location selection, which is one of the important activities in strategic planning for a wide range of private and public companies, is a multi-criteria decision making problem including both quantitative and qualitative criteria. Traditional methods for facility location selection can not be effectively handled because information can not be represented by precise information unde...

The concept of classifying the records of the information system has been due to Two Way Approach [ ie, lower and upper approximations ] of Pawlak’s rough sets model. But the approximation does to take into consideration the degree of contribution of the basic categories. This deficiency was eliminated in early nineties by Ziarko who has proposed VPRS model and later on various efforts were mad...

Fuzzy measure, as a non-additive metric, is an effective tool for information fusion. Constructing a determining mechanism for fuzzy measure with operability is the key focus in academic and application fields. In this paper, we first take core samples as knowledge carriers on the decision information system. According to changes of knowledge carriers, we second give a knowledge-based metric of...

Hesitant fuzzy linguistic decision making is a focus point in linguistic decision making, in which the main method is based on preference ordering. This paper develops a new hesitant fuzzy linguistic TOPSIS method for group multi-criteria linguistic decision making; the method is inspired by the TOPSIS method and the preference degree between two hesitant fuzzy linguistic term sets (HFLTSs). To...

Here are many situations in real applications of decision making where we deal with uncertain conditions.  Due to the different sources of uncertainty,  since its original definition of fuzzy sets in 1965 cite{zadeh1965},  different generalizations and extensions of fuzzy sets have been introduced: Type-2 fuzzy sets cite{6,13}, Intuitionistic fuzzy sets cite{1}, fuzzy multi-sets cite{37} and et...

As an emerging area considering behavioral aspects of decision making, target-oriented decision model lies in the philosophical root of bounded rationality as well as represents the S-shaped value function. This paper deals with multi-attribute decision analysis from target-oriented viewpoint. First, the basic (random) target-oriented decision model is extended to involve three types of target ...

Globalization of business and competitiveness in manufacturing has forced companies to improve their manufacturing facilities to respond to market requirements. Machine tool evaluation involves an essential decision using imprecise and vague information, and plays a major role to improve the productivity and flexibility in manufacturing. The aim of this study is to present an integrated approac...