Virtual marketplaces on the web provide people with great facilities to buy and sell goods similar to conventional markets. In traditional business, reputation is subjectively built for known persons and companies as the deals are made in the course of time. As it is important to do business with trustful individuals and companies, there is a need to survive the reputation concept in virtual ma...

We try to provide a tentative assessment of the role of fuzzy sets in decision analysis. We discuss membership functions, aggregation operations, linguistic variables, fuzzy intervals and the valued preference relations they induce. The importance of the notion of bipolarity and the potential of qualitative evaluation methods are also pointed out. We take a critical standpoint on where we stand...

Chiclana, Herrera and Herrera-Viedma studied conditions under which the reciprocity property is maintained in the aggregation of reciprocal fuzzy preference relations using the OWA operator guided by a relative linguistic quantifier. In this note, we focus on the reciprocity in the aggregation of fuzzy preference relations (that is, the additive reciprocity is not assumed) using the OWA operato...

The supply performance has the dynamic continuity behaviors which cover the past, present and future of time horizons. The assessment of supply performance possesses properties of uncertainty and inaccuracy, and is associated with multiple dimensions of supply behavior. Given the difficulty of executing the assessment with quantification, this study uses linguistic variable to assess supply be...

In this paper, we extend the distance measure to the linguistic fuzzy sets, and develop the linguistic distance operators, such as linguistic weighted distance (LWD) operator, linguistic ordered weighted distance (LOWD) operator, and study some of their desired properties. These aggregation operators are very useful for decision-making problems because they establish a comparison between an ide...

Environmental indices (EI) are common communication tool used to describe the overall status of environmental systems (e.g. air, water, soil). Development of EI entails the use of mathematical operators to aggregate various non-commensurate input parameters in a logical manner. Ordered weighted averaging (OWA) operator is a general mean type operator that provides flexibility in the aggregation...

Linguistic variables are very useful to evaluate alternatives in decision making problems because they provide a vocabulary in natural language rather than numbers. Some aggregation operators for linguistic variables force the use of a symmetric and uniformly distributed set of terms. The need to relax these conditions has recently been posited. This paper presents the induced unbalanced lingui...

This paper argues that fuzzy representations are appropriate in applications where there are major sources of imprecision and/or uncertainty. Case studies of fuzzy approaches to specific problems of medical diagnosis and classification are described in support of this argument. The case studies are in the areas of categorical consistency, diagnostic monitoring and scoring. The solutions use a v...

We propose a new, human consistent method for the evaluation of similarity of time series that uses a fuzzy quantifier base aggregation of trends (segments), within the authors’ (cf. Kacprzyk, Wilbik, Zadrożny [1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6] or Kacprzyk, Wilbik [7, 8, 9]) approach to the linguistic summarization of trends based on Zadeh’s protoforms and fuzzy logic with linguistic quantifiers. The results o...

This paper focuses on the acquisition of abstract information, i.e. information which are not analytically related to conventional physical quantities as for example the comfort. In these complex cases, we propose to use fuzzy sensors which compute and report linguistic assessment of numerical acquired values. Two methods are proposed to realize the aggregation from basic measurements. The firs...