This paper proposes a new approach based on Bonferroni mean operator and possibility degree to solve fuzzy multi-attribute decision making (FMADM) problems in which the attribute value takes the form of interval type-2 fuzzy numbers. We introduce the concepts of interval possibility mean value and present a new method for calculating the possibility degree of two interval trapezoidal type-2 fuz...

The indicator of groundwater contamination developed and used in agriculture is calculated from data available in the field or data estimated by an expert. The modeling of this indicator generally requires a large number of parameters whose measure is imprecise. Several information sources provide information about the same imprecise quantities which have to be combined for defining what is cal...

Possibility theory was initiated by Zadeh in 1978 as an alternative to probability theory. Probability theory is not efficient in the study of those uncertainty situations in which phenomena occur with a small frequency. In such cases it is preferable to apply techniques offered by possibility theory.In foundation of possibility theory one started on a paralel line with probability theory. Rand...

This paper presents an original use of fuzzy logic for the design of Case-Based Reasoning (CBR) assistants, mainly for the case retrieval step. Our motivation comes from the importance of allowing for the expression of exible data (incomplete and imprecise data, preferences) in problem and case descriptions and to manage them in case retrieval. We present our retrieval system CAREFUL based on p...

This paper is an attempt at providing a fuzzy set-based approach to case-based decision. Case-based decision consists in selecting an action to be applied to a current problem on the basis of a set of cases storing the results of various actions applied to similar, previously encountered, problems. Recently, Gilboa and Schmeidler have presented an axiomatic justification of a counterpart of the...

In this paper we present several fuzzy logics trying to capture different notions of necessity (in the sense of Possibility theory) for Gödel logic formulas. Based on different characterizations of necessity measures on fuzzy sets, a group of logics with Kripke style semantics are built over a restricted language, namely a two level language composed of non-modal and modal formulas, the latter ...

Valuation networks have been proposed as graphical representations of valuation-based systems (VBSs). The VBS framework is able to capture many uncertainty calculi including probability theory, Dempster-Shafer’s belief-function theory, Spohn’s epistemic belief theory, and Zadeh’s possibility theory. In this paper, we show how valuation networks encode conditional independence relations. For the...

Zadeh proposed and developed the theory of approximate reasoning in a long series of papers in the 1970’s (see e.g. [28, 29, 30, 31, 32, 34, 35]), at the same time when he introduced possibility theory [33] as a new approach to uncertainty modeling. His original approach is based on a fuzzy set-based representation of the contents of factual statements (expressing elastic restrictions on the po...