The degree of similarity or dissimilarity between the objects under study plays an important role. In vector space, especially, the cosine similarity measure is often used in information retrieval, citation analysis, and automatic classification. However, it scarcely deals with trapezoidal fuzzy information and multicriteria decision-making problems. For this purpose, a cosine similarity measur...

Linear programming problems with trapezoidal fuzzy numbers have recently attracted much interest. Various methods have been developed for solving these types of problems. Here, following the work of Ganesan and Veeramani and using the recent approach of Mahdavi-Amiri and Nasseri, we introduce the dual of the linear programming problem with symmetric trapezoidal fuzzy numbers and establish some ...

In this paper we introduce an approach for solving multiattribute decision-making problems in which there are several decision-makers who individually and independently elicit their preferences. The preferences of each decision-maker are imprecise and represented by an imprecise additive multiattribute utility function. We allow for incomplete information on the component utility functions and ...

2 How to Create Instances of Fuzzy Numbers 3 2.1 Arbitrary Fuzzy Numbers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3 2.1.1 Definition by Side Functions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3 2.1.2 Definition by α-cut Bounds . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5 2.1.3 Definition with Generating Functions Omitted: Shadowed Sets . . . . . . 6 2.2 Us...

There exist some fuzziness and uncertainty in the process of ecological construction. The aim of this paper is to develop a direct and an effective simplified method for obtaining the cost-sharing scheme when some interested parties form a cooperative coalition to improve the ecological environment of Min River together. Firstly, we propose the solution concept of the least square prenucleolus ...

In this paper, a new method is proposed for solving a special type of fuzzy transportation problem by assuming that a decision maker is uncertain about the precise values of transportation cost only but there is no uncertainty about the supply and demand of the product. In the proposed method transportation costs are represented by generalized trapezoidal fuzzy numbers. To illustrate the propos...