Fuzzy Cognitive Maps (FCM) are a promising approach for socio-ecological systems modelling. FCMs represent problem knowledge extracted from different stakeholders in the form of connected factors/variables with imprecise cause-effect relationships and many feedback loops. These typically large maps are condensed and aggregated to obtain a summary view of the system. However, representation, con...

Emergency management (EM) is a very important issue with various kinds of emergency events frequently taking place. One of the most important components of EM is to evaluate the emergency response capacity (ERC) of emergency department or emergency alternative. Because of time pressure, lack of experience and data, experts often evaluate the importance and the ratings of qualitative criteria in...

Fuzzy logic, neural network, fuzzy-neural networks play an important role in the linguistic modeling of intelligent control and decision making in complex systems. The Fuzzy-Neural Network (FNN) learning represents one of the most effective algorithms to build such linguistic models. This paper proposes an Artificial Immune Algorithm (AIA) based optimal learning fuzzy-neural network (IM-FNN). T...

In this paper, we firstly propose some generalized prioritized aggregation operators to aggregate the intuitionistic fuzzy values (IFVs), such as the generalized intuitionistic fuzzy prioritized weighted geometric (GIFPWG) operator and the generalized intuitionistic fuzzy prioritized weighted average (GIFPWA) operator. It is shown that some existing intuitionistic fuzzy aggregation operators ar...

Information retrieval is the essential task for Traffic Information Service System in Intelligent Transportation Systems (ITS). There a lot of fuzzy traffic information derived from human factor. To achieve fuzzy semantic retrieval, this paper proposes an approach using Resource Description Framework (RDF) and fuzzy ontology. First, we apply RDF data model to represent traffic information on th...

The definition of hesitant interval-valued intuitionistic fuzzy sets (HIVIFSs) is developed based on interval-valued intuitionistic fuzzy sets (IVIFSs) and hesitant fuzzy sets (HFSs). Then, some operations on HIVIFSs are introduced in detail, and their properties are further discussed. In addition, some hesitant interval-valued intuitionistic fuzzy number aggregation operators based on t-conorm...

The Decision Support System (DSS) contains more than one antecedent and the degrees of strength of the antecedents need to be combined to determine the overall strength of the rule consequent. The membership values of the linguistic variables in Fuzzy have to be combined using an aggregation operator. But it is not feasible to predefine the form of aggregation operators in decision-making. Inst...

Recently the distributive equations involving various classes of aggregation operators have aroused widespread attention because of their importance in the theoretic and applied communities of fuzzy set theory. 2-uninorms and semi-t-operators are two special classes of aggregation operators and have been proved to be useful in many areas such as fuzzy decision making, approximate reasoning and ...

In this paper a Sequential Selection Process in Group Decision Making under linguistic assessments is presented, where a set of linguistic preference relations represents individuals preferences. A collective linguistic preference is obtained by means of a deened linguistic ordered weighted averaging operator whose weights are chosen according to the concept of fuzzy majority, speciied by a fuz...