Real world environments are characterized by high levels of linguistic and numerical uncertainties. A Fuzzy Logic System (FLS) is recognized as an adequate methodology to handle the uncertainties and imprecision available in real world environments and applications. Since the invention of fuzzy logic, it has been applied with great success to numerous real world applications such as washing mac...

In this work, we shall present some novel process to measure the similarity between picture fuzzy sets. Firstly, we adopt the concept of intuitionistic fuzzy sets, interval-valued intuitionistic fuzzy sets and picture fuzzy sets. Secondly, we develop some similarity measures between picture fuzzy sets, such as, cosine similarity measure, weighted cosine similarity measure, set-theoretic similar...

Interval Type-2 Fuzzy TOPSIS (IT2FTOPSIS) is a useful way to handle Fuzzy Multiple Attribute DecisionMaking (FMADM) problems in a more flexible and intelligent manner. It is very useful due to the fact that it uses Type-2 Fuzzy Sets (T2FSs) rather than Type-1 Fuzzy Sets (T1FSs) to represent the evaluating values and the weights of attributes. Besides, all the linguistic terms are pointed in Typ...

In this paper, we derive innerand outer-bound sets for the type-reduced set of an interval type-2 fuzzy logic system (FLS), based on a new mathematical interpretation of the Karnik–Mendel iterative procedure for computing the type-reduced set. The bound sets can not only provide estimates about the uncertainty contained in the output of an interval type-2 FLS, but can also be used to design an ...

This paper presents a very practical type-2-fuzzistics methodology for obtaining interval type-2 fuzzy set (IT2 FS) models for words, one that is called an interval approach (IA). The basic idea of the IA is to collect interval endpoint data for a word from a group of subjects, map each subject’s data interval into a prespecified type-1 (T1) person membership function, interpret the latter as a...

This paper proposes a Self-Evolving Interval Type-2 Fuzzy Neural Network (SEIT2FNN) for nonlinear systems identification. The SEIT2FNN has both on-line structure and parameter learning abilities. The antecedent parts in each fuzzy rule of the SEIT2FNN are interval type-2 fuzzy sets and the fuzzy rules are of the Takagi-Sugeno-Kang (TSK) type. An on-line clustering method is proposed to generate...

Yager’s ordered weighted averaging (OWA) operator has been widely used in soft decision making to aggregate experts’ individual opinions or preferences for achieving an overall decision. The traditional Yager’s OWA operator focuses exclusively on the aggregation of crisp numbers. However, human experts usually tend to express their opinions or preferences in a very natural way via linguistic te...