This paper presents a new genetic operator called adaptive operator to improve local portions of chromosomes. This new operator is implemented into PseudoBacterial Genetic Algorithm (PBGA). The PBGA was proposed by the authors as a new approach combining a genetic algorithm (GA) with a local improvement mechanism inspired by a process in bacterial genetics. The PBGA was applied for the acquisit...

In this paper we present a new class of operators based on Trapezoid Fuzzy numbers such as Trapezoid Fuzzy Prioritized Weighted Mean (TFPWM) operator, Trapezoid Fuzzy Prioritized Weighted Geometric Average (TFPWG), Trapezoid Fuzzy Prioritized Weighted Harmonic Average(TFPWH) operators to solve multiple attribute group decision making (MAGDM) problems. Unlike other (MAGDM) techniques here the at...

This paper reviews and compares theories of fuzzy sets and rough sets. Two approaches for the formulation of fuzzy sets are reviewed, one is based on many-valued logic and the other is based on modal logic. Two views of rough sets are presented, set-oriented view and operator-oriented view. Rough sets under set-oriented view are closely related to fuzzy sets, which leads to non-truth-functional...

With respect to multiple attribute decision making problem with triangular fuzzy linguistic information, in which the attribute weights and expert weights take the form of real numbers, and the preference values take the form of triangular fuzzy linguistic variables, a operator for aggregating triangular fuzzy linguistic variables, such as the fuzzy linguistic weighted harmonic mean (FLWHM) ope...

In this paper, we firstly propose some generalized prioritized aggregation operators to aggregate the intuitionistic fuzzy values (IFVs), such as the generalized intuitionistic fuzzy prioritized weighted geometric (GIFPWG) operator and the generalized intuitionistic fuzzy prioritized weighted average (GIFPWA) operator. It is shown that some existing intuitionistic fuzzy aggregation operators ar...

The performance of a genetic algorithm is dependent on the genetic operators, in general, and on the type of crossover operator, in particular. The population diversity is usually used as the performance measure for the premature convergence. In this paper, a fuzzy genetic algorithm is proposed for solving binary encoded combinatorial optimization problems. A new crossover operator and probabil...

Motivated by intuitionistic fuzzy sets and fzzy linguistic approach, this article proposes the concept of linguistic intuitionistic fuzzy numbers (LIFNs) where membership and and nonmembership are represented as linguistic terms. In order to process the multiple attribute decision making (MADM) with LIFNs, we introduce the linguistic score index and linguistic accuracy index of the LIFN. Simult...

A crucial issue related to the Atanassov’s intuitionistic fuzzy operators is how to determine their weights. Various weighted methods have been proposed last decades, but it seems that there is no investigation on the monotonous and proportioninvariant properties, which is decisive for aggregation and comparison of Atanassov’s intuitionistic fuzzy values in group decision making. In this paper,...

In decision making, a widely used methodology to manage unbalanced fuzzy linguistic information is the linguistic hierarchy (LH), which relies on a linguistic symbolic computational model based on ordinal 2-tuple linguistic representation. However, the ordinal 2-tuple linguistic approach does not exploit all advantages of Zadeh’s fuzzy linguistic approach to model uncertainty because the member...

Single-valued neutrosophic hesitant fuzzy set (SVNHFS) is a combination of single-valued neutrosophic set and hesitant fuzzy set, and its aggregation tools play an important role in the multiple criteria decision-making (MCDM) process. This paper investigates the MCDM problems in which the criteria under SVNHF environment are in different priority levels. First, the generalized single-valued ne...