In this article I use linguistic fuzzy-set theory to analyze the process of decision making in politics. I first introduce a number of relevant elements of (numerical and linguistic) fuzzy-set theory that are needed to understand the terminology as well as to grasp the scope and depth of the approach. I then explicate a linguistic fuzzy-set approach (LFSA) to the process of decision making unde...

Linguistic modeling of complex irregular systems is helpful for the generation of decision making controls. In the various existing Fuzzy models, proposed by Mamdani, Sugeno, and Tsukamoto, the concepts of the set of membership functions and different Fuzzy logic rules to reason about data were addressed. The time control issues were not discussed in these models. In this paper, a new model is ...

The interests of web users can be revealed by their visited web pages and time duration on these web pages during their surfing. Time duration on a web page is characterized as a fuzzy linguistic variable because linguistic variable makes users easily understand the expression of time duration and can disregard subtle difference between two time durations. Each web access pattern from web logs ...

Interval type-2 fuzzy sets, each of which is characterized by the footprint of uncertainty, are a very useful means to depict the linguistic information in the process of decision making. In this article, we investigate the group decision making problems in which all the linguistic information provided by the decision makers is expressed as interval type-2 fuzzy decision matrices where each of ...

The adaptive neural fuzzy inference system is used to simulate trajectory tracking in aircraft landing operationsmanagement. The advantage of the approach is that by using the linguistic representation ability of fuzzy sets and the learning ability of neural networks, the approximate linguistic representations can be improved or updated as more data become available. This approach is illustrate...

Engineering systems in industry are most often concerned with safety issues. Many of these systems are intended to work properly even in contexts where information is missing, incomplete or unreliable. This chapter introduces a safety model based on the concept of approximate reasoning for safety analysis. Parameters of the safety level, including failure rate, failure consequence severity and ...

In this paper, we propose a novel fuzzy logic controller, called linguistic hedge fuzzy logic controller, to simplify the membership function constructions and the rule developments. The design methodology of linguistic hedge fuzzy logic controller is a hybrid model based on the concepts of the linguistic hedges and the genetic algorithms. The linguistic hedge operators are used to adjust the s...

The aim of this paper is to present a fusion approach of multi-granularity linguistic information for managing information assessed in di erent linguistic term sets (multi-granularity linguistic term sets) together with its application in a decision making problem with multiple information sources, assuming that the linguistic performance values given to the alternatives by the di erent sources...

Discrete event computer simulation is one of the most widely used modeling tools for production systems. Object-oriented programming is revolutionizing computer simulation software packages. A fuzzy set approach for multi-criteria selection of object-oriented simulation software for analysis of production system is developed in this paper. The approach uses fuzzy set theory and algebraic operat...

Quality function deployment (QFD) is a customer-driven quality management and product development system for achieving higher customer satisfaction. The QFD process involves various inputs in the form of linguistic data, e.g., human perception, judgment, and evaluation on importance or relationship strength. Such data are usually ambiguous and uncertain. An aim of this paper is to examine the i...