To address the hesitancy, inconsistency and uncertainty of decision makers’ cognitions, linguistic interval hesitant fuzzy sets (LIHFSs) are efficient tools. This paper focuses on studying the application of LIHFSs. To do this, two correlation coefficients of LIHFSs are defined, which needn't consider the length of elements in LIHFSs or the arrangement of their possible interval values. To addr...

Crisp comparison matrices produce crisp weight estimates. It is logical for an interval or fuzzy comparison matrix to give an interval or fuzzy weight estimate. In this paper, an eigenvector method (EM) is proposed to generate interval or fuzzy weight estimate from an interval or fuzzy comparison matrix, which differs from Csutora and Buckley’s LambdaMax method in several aspects. First, the pr...

For interval-valued fuzzy datasets, people have started to do research on interval-valued fuzzy rough sets and relevant models. However, these models could not be effectively applied to handle the real-valued datasets such as interval-valued fuzzy datasets as variable precision problems were not considered in interval-valued fuzzy rough sets. In this paper, fuzzy variable precision rough sets a...

A multiobjective security game problem with fuzzy payoffs is studied in this paper. The problem is formulated as a bilevel programming problem with fuzzy coefficients. Using the idea of nearest interval approximation of fuzzy numbers, the problem is transformed into a bilevel programming problem with interval coefficients. The Karush-Kuhn-Tucker conditions is applied then to reduce the problem ...

Grey systems and interval valued fuzzy sets appear to be similar concepts. This abstract provides a brief introduction to grey systems and compares them to interval valued fuzzy sets. We argue that grey system is similar to an interval fuzzy set, but has different properties. Grey systems focus on the interval range of the system property itself, but interval fuzzy sets consider the fuzzy membe...

In order to obtain the information from an L-Fuzzy context, the complete relation between the objects and the attributes is needed. However, the contexts that model many situations have absent values. To solve this problem, at the beginning of the paper we remind the interval-valued linguistic variable definition and, later, we propose an extension of the fuzzy propositions to the interval-valu...

In this paper, following the ideas of (continuous) t-norm and interval numbers, a concept of (continuous) interval-valued t-norm is proposed. Based on the interval-valued fuzzy set and the continuous interval-valued t-norm, we propose a notion of interval-valued fuzzy metric space, which is a generalization of fuzzy metric space in the sense of George and Veeramani [Fuzzy Sets and Systems 64 (1...

A fuzzy logic controller with interval-valued inference mechanism is presented for the control of distributed parameter system (DPS). Interval-valued fuzzy set, a special case of type-2 fuzzy set, is innovatively designed to cope with the spatial information of distributed parameter systems. The proposed fuzzy logic controller is composed of six modules: fuzzifier, fuzzy composition, rules, inf...

In this paper, the Multiple Attribute Group Decision Making (MAGDM) problems is based on the attribute weights calculated from completely unknown information using the Maximal Entropy OWA weights. The interval-valued intuitionistic fuzzy ordered weighted averaging (IIFOWA) operator is utilized to aggregate all individual interval-valued intuitionistic fuzzy decision matrices provided by the dec...