Fuzzy measures have been widely used to determine the degrees of subjective importance of evaluation items. However, the leniency error may exist when most attributes are assigned unduly high ratings. Because respondents often assign similarly complimentary scores, errors of positive leniency make it difficult to differentiate the importance of decision attributes. To reduce positive leniency i...

We introduce the concept of a fuzzy total preorder. Then we analyze its numerical representability through a real-valued order-preserving function defined for each α-cut.

Fuzzy numbers can be introduced in order to model imprecise situations involving real numbers, and one of the first problem one meets working with these is to decide what type of order to use on the fuzzy number set. In fact this set does not have a natural total ranking. Different methods for ranking fuzzy numbers has been described. Most of these are defined by a function which maps each fuzz...

In this work, we propose an approach for computing the compromised solution of an LR fuzzy linear system by using of a ranking function when the coefficient matrix is a crisp mn matrix. To do this, we use expected interval to find an LR fuzzy vector, X , such that the vector (AX ) has the least distance from (b) in 1 norm and the 1 cut of X satisfies the crisp linear system AX = b ...

a new approach to define the similarity measure betweeninterval-valued fuzzy sets is presented. the proposed approach isbased on a weighted measure in which the normalized similaritiesbetween lower functions and also between upper functions arecombined by a weight parameter. the properties of this similaritymeasure are investigated. it is shown that, the proposed measurehas some advantages in c...

For fuzzy mathematical models using general fuzzy sets rather than fuzzy numbers or fuzzy vectors, operations (addition and scalar multiplication) and orderings of fuzzy sets are needed, and the concept of fuzzy set-valued convex mappings is important. In the present paper, fundamental properties of operations, orderings, and fuzzy set-valued convex mappings for general fuzzy sets are investiga...