Molodtsov has introduced the concept of soft sets and the application of soft sets in decision making and medical diagnosis problems. The basic properties of vague soft sets are presented. In this paper, we introduce the concept of interval-valued vague soft sets which are an extension of the soft set and its operations such as equality, subset, intersection, union, AND operation, OR operation,...

In this paper, a new kind of soft sets related with some common decision making problems in real life called central soft sets is introduced. Properties of some basic operations on central soft sets are shown. It is investigated that some classic operations between soft sets can be obtained by central soft sets with selecting different central sets. We initiate the concepts of an evaluation sys...

The notion of fuzzy soft sets is a hybrid soft computing model that integrates both gradualness and parameterization methods in harmony to deal with uncertainty. The decomposition of fuzzy soft sets is of great importance in both theory and practical applications with regard to decision making under uncertainty. This study aims to explore decomposition of fuzzy soft sets with finite value space...

The notion of fuzzy soft sets is a hybrid soft computing model that integrates both gradualness and parametrization methods in harmony to deal with uncertainty. The decomposition of fuzzy soft sets is of great importance in both theory and practical applications with regard to decision making under uncertainty. This study aims to explore decomposition of fuzzy soft sets with finite value spaces...

We introduce notions of soft rough m-polar fuzzy sets and m-polar fuzzy soft rough sets as novel hybrid models for soft computing, and investigate some of their fundamental properties. We discuss the relationship between m-polar fuzzy soft rough approximation operators and crisp soft rough approximation operators. We also present applications of m-polar fuzzy soft rough sets to decision-making.

*Correspondence: [email protected] 1Department of Applied Mathematics, School of Science, Xi’an University of Posts and Telecommunications, Xi’an, 710121, China Full list of author information is available at the end of the article Abstract This study aims to explore modular inequalities of interval-valued fuzzy soft sets characterized by Jun’s soft J-inclusions. Using soft product operations...

For dealing with uncertainties researchers introduced the concept of soft sets. Georgiou et al. [10] defined several basic notions on soft θ-topology and they studied many properties of them. This paper continues the study of the theory of soft θ-topological spaces and presents for this theory new definitions, characterizations, and results concerning soft θ-boundary, soft θ-exterior, soft θ-ge...

The present study investigates some novel categorical properties of soft sets. By combining categorical theory with soft set theory, a categorical framework of soft set theory is established. It is proved that the category SFun of soft sets and soft functions has equalizers, finite products, pullbacks, and exponential properties. It is worth mentioning that we find that SFun is both a topologic...

It will be shown that each information system can be considered a soft set and each finite soft set can be considered an information system.