Similarity measure is an important tool to measure the degree of resemblance between two intuitionistic fuzzy sets. In this paper, in order to overcome the counter-intuitive in some cases, a new similarity measure of intuitionistic fuzzy sets is constructed and successively applied in pattern recognition and medical diagnosis. Based on the proposed similarity measure, a new decision making meth...

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...

In order to provide ubiquitous access for the users, future generation network integrate a multitude of radio access technologies (RAT’S) which can interoperate between them. However, the most challenging problem is the selection of an optimal radio access network, in terms of quality of service anywhere at anytime. This paper proposes a novel ranking algorithm, which combines multi attribute d...

A new method is proposed to solve the multiple attribute decision making (MADM) problems with the trapezoid fuzzy linguistic variables ( Vs TFL ) based on the trapezoid fuzzy linguistic hybrid harmonic averaging (TFLHHA ) operator. To begin with, this paper reviews the concept and operational rules of the Vs TFL , the calculation method of the possibility degree with Vs TFL , and the comparison...

In the forthcoming heterogeneous wireless environment, the mobility management of users roaming between different wireless access technologies is a challenging and important technical issue. New mobile devices such as netbooks, smartphones and tablets allow users to perform vertical handoffs among different wireless networks. The multiple attribute decision making (MADM) methods are suitable to...

The decision making problem with interval numbers is an important topic of uncertain multiple attribute decision making. A difficulty to solve the interval decision making problems is the ranking method of interval numbers, because among the interval numbers exist cross, it’s difficult to ranking the alternatives directly. This paper studied how to make use of the traditional method for certain...

In multiple-attribute decision-making (MADM) problems, ranking the alternatives is an important step for making best decision. Intuitionistic fuzzy numbers (IFNs) are a powerful tool expressing uncertainty and vagueness in MADM problems. However, existing methods IFNs do not consider probabilistic dominance relationship between alternatives, which can lead to inconsistent inaccurate rankings. t...

A general multiple attribute decision-making (MADM) approach is proposed to integrate subjective preferences and objective information and to assess the relative weights of attributes, where subjective preferences are expressed either by a fuzzy preference relation on decision alternatives or by a pairwise comparison matrix on the relative weights of attributes or by both of them and objective ...

Abstract: In recent years, neutrosophic sets (NSs) have attracted widespread attentions and been widely applied to multiple attribute decision-making (MADM). The interval neutrosophic set (INS) is an extension of NS, in which the truth-membership, indeterminacy-membership and falsity-membership degree are expressed by interval values, respectively. Obviously, INS can conveniently describe compl...

Although crisp data are fundamentally indispensable in the conventional linear programming technique for multidimensional analysis of preference (LINMAP), the observed values in the real-world problems are often imprecise or vague. These imprecise or vague data can be suitably characterized by linguistic terms which are fuzzy in nature. LINMAP has been widely used to solve multi-attribute decis...