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...

In principle, we can have many different membership functions. Interestingly, however, in many practical applications, triangular and trapezoidal membership functions are the most efficient ones. In this paper, we use fuzzy approach to explain this empirical phenomenon.

The shapes of if-part fuzzy sets affect the approximating capability of fuzzy systems. In this paper, the fuzzy systems with the kernel-shaped if-part fuzzy sets are built directly from the training data. It is proved that these fuzzy systems are universal approximators and their uniform approximation rates can be estimated in the single-input–single-output (SISO) case. On the basis of these ra...

Here we consider approaches to the ranking of fuzzy numbers based upon the idea of associating with a fuzzy number a scalar value, its signal/noise ratios, where the signal and the noise are defined as the middle-point and the spread of each $gamma$-cut of a fuzzy number, respectively. We use the value of a as the weight of the signal/noise ratio of each $gamma$-cut of a fuzzy number to calcula...

Analytical structure for a fuzzy PID controller is introduced by employing two fuzzy sets for each of the three input variables and four fuzzy sets for the output variable. This structure is derived via left and right trapezoidal membership functions for inputs, trapezoidal membership functions for output, algebraic product triangular norm, bounded sum triangular co-norm, Mamdani minimum infere...

Nowadays, decision making using fuzzy logic is a major research area for scientists, researchers and project managers. Construction of membership functions and fuzzy rules from numerical data is very important in various applications of the fuzzy set theory. Therefore, in this paper a model is proposed for development of membership functions and fuzzy rules from numerical data for decision maki...