The aim of this paper is to investigate intuitionistic fuzzy multiple attribute group decision making problems where the attribute values provided by experts are expressed in intuitionistic fuzzy numbers, and the weight information about the experts is to be determined. We present a new method to derive the weights of experts and rank the preference order of alternatives based on projection mod...

Record linking is the task of detecting records in several databases that refer to the same entity. This task aims at exploring the relationship between entities, which normally lack common identifiers in heterogeneous datasets. When entities contain multiple relational records, linking them across datasets can be more accurate by treating the records as groups, which leads to group linking met...

Weight aggregation is the key process to solve a multiple-attribute group decision-making (MAGDM) problem. This paper is trying to propose a possible approach to objectivize subjective information and to aggregate information from attribute values themselves and decision-makers’ judgment. An MAGDM problem without information about decision-makers’ and attributes’ weight is considered. In order ...

As a neutrosophic number, which consists of a determinate part and an indeterminate part, can more easily and better express incomplete and indeterminate information that exists commonly in real situations, the main purposes of this paper are to provide a neutrosophic number tool for group decision-making problems with indeterminate information under a neutrosophic number environment and to dev...

The feature of our method different from other fuzzy grey relation method for supermixed multiple attribute group decision-making is that all of the subjective and objective weights are obtained by interval grey number and that the group decisionmaking is performed based on the relative approach degree of grey TOPSIS, the relative approach degree of grey incidence and the relative membership de...

In this paper, we study the multiple attribute group decision making (MAGDM) problems, in which the information about the attribute weights and the expert weights are interval numbers, and the attribute values take the form of uncertain linguistic information. We introduce some operational laws of uncertain linguistic variables and a formula for comparing two uncertain linguistic variables, and...

The imperative to address the national obesity epidemic has stimulated efforts to develop accurate dietary assessment methods suitable for large-scale applications. This study evaluated the performance of the USDA Automated Multiple-Pass Method (AMPM), the computerized dietary recall designed for the National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey dietary survey, and 2 epidemiological methods ...

In this paper, we present a new method to handle fuzzy multiple attributes group decision-making problems. First, we construct fuzzy importance matrices for decision-makers with respect to attributes and construct fuzzy evaluating matrices for decision-makers with respect to attributes of the alternatives. Then, based on the fuzzy importance matrices and the fuzzy evaluating matrices, we can ge...

The Lie-Group Shooting Method for Nonlinear Two-Point Boundary Value Problems Exhibiting Multiple Solutions Chein-Shan Liu1 Summary The present paper provides a Lie-group shooting method for the numerical solutions of second-order nonlinear boundary value problems exhibiting multiple solutions. It aims to find all solutions as easy as possible. The boundary conditions considered are classified ...