From quantitative to qualitative orness for lattice OWA operators

This paper deals with OWA (ordered weighted average) operators defined on an arbitrary finite lattice endowed with a t-norm and a t-conorm. A qualitative orness measure for any OWA operator is suggested, based on its proximity to the OR operator that yields the maximum of the given data. In the particular case of a finite distributive lattice, considering the t-norm given by the meet and the t-conorm given by the join, this qualitative measure agrees with the value that some discrete Sugeno integral takes on the vector consisting of all the members of the lattice. Some applications of the qualitative orness of OWA operators to decision-making problems are shown. In addition, OWA operators defined on a finite product lattice are also applied in image processing. We analyze the effect of several OWA operators with respect to their orness.     

Some generalized aggregating operators with linguistic information and their application to multiple attribute group decision making

With respect to multiple attribute group decision making problems with linguistic information, some new decision analysis methods are proposed. Firstly, we develop three new aggregation operators: generalized 2-tuple weighted average (G-2TWA) operator, generalized 2-tuple ordered weighted average (G-2TOWA) operator and induced generalized 2-tuple ordered weighted average (IG-2TOWA) operator. Then, a method based on the IG-2TOWA and G-2TWA operators for multiple attribute group decision making is presented. In this approach, alternative appraisal values are calculated by the aggregation of 2-tuple linguistic information. Thus, the ranking of alternative or selection of the most desirable alternative(s) is obtained by the comparison of 2-tuple linguistic information. Finally, a numerical example is used to illustrate the applicability and effectiveness of the proposed method.     

Generalized power aggregation operators and their applications in group decision making

In this paper, we investigate a generalized power average (GPA) operator and its weighted form, which are on the basis of the power average (PA) operator and the generalized mean, and develop a generalized power ordered weighted average (GPOWA) operator based on the power ordered weighted average (POWA) operator. Then, we extend these operators to uncertain environments and present an uncertain generalized power average (UGPA) operator and its weighted form, and an uncertain generalized power ordered weighted average (UGPOWA) operator to aggregate the input arguments taking the form of interval of numerical values. We also extend the GPA operator and the GPOWA operator to intuitionistic fuzzy environment, and obtain the generalized intuitionistic fuzzy power averaging (GIFPA) operator and the generalized intuitionistic fuzzy power ordered weighted averaging (GIFPOWA) operator. Moreover, some properties of these operators are studied. We also present new approaches on the basis of the proposed operators in an example of strategic decision making.     

Quantitative temporal logics over the reals: PSpace and below

In many cases, the addition of metric operators to qualitative temporal logics (TLs) increases the complexity of satisfiability by at least one exponential: while common qualitative TLs are complete for NP or PSpace, their metric extensions are often ExpSpace-complete or even undecidable. In this paper, we exhibit several metric extensions of qualitative TLs of the real line that are at most PSpace-complete, and analyze the transition from NP to PSpace for such logics. Our first result is that the logic obtained by extending since-until logic of the real line with the operators ‘sometime within n time units in the past/future’ is still PSpace-complete. In contrast to existing results, we also capture the case where n is coded in binary and the finite variability assumption is not made. To establish containment in PSpace, we use a novel reduction technique that can also be used to prove tight upper complexity bounds for many other metric TLs in which the numerical parameters to metric operators are coded in binary. We then consider metric TLs of the reals that do not offer any qualitative temporal operators. In such languages, the complexity turns out to depend on whether binary or unary coding of parameters is assumed: satisfiability is still PSpace-complete under binary coding, but only NP-complete under unary coding.     

定性Dempster-Shafer理论

采用一个全序的符号值集合来代替数值信任度集合[0,1],提出定性Dempster-Shafer理论来处理既有不确定性又有不精确性的推理问题．首先,定义了适合对不确定性进行定性表达和推理的定性mass函数、定性信任函数等概念,并且研究了这些概念之间的基本关系;其次,详细讨论了定性证据合成问题,提出了基于平均策略的证据合成规则．这种定性Dempster-Shafer理论与其他相关理论相比,既通过在定性领域重新定义Dempster-Shafer理论的基本概念,继承了Dempster-Shafer理论在不确定推理方面的主要特点,同时又具有适合对不精确性操作的既有严格定义又符合直观特性的定性算子,因此更适合基于Dempster-Shafer理论框架不精确表示和处理不确定性．     

基于语言型混合算子的模糊信息聚合方法

在多属性决策过程中经常会用到聚合算子,有序加权平均聚合(OWA)算子是最常用的聚合算子之一,通常用于聚合确切的数值.然而,现实世界部分信息的不确定性以及决策者对一些信息的模糊性,使得部分信息不能用确切的数值表示,从而导致OWA算子及其扩展算子向着多元化发展.对此,给出一种语言型混合有序加权平均聚合(LHOWA)算子,同时研究该算子所应具备的一些基本性质,并给出一种基于该算子的语言型信息聚合方法,用于多属性决策过程中模糊信息的聚合.最后,通过一个煤矿安全评价的算例对所提出方法的优越性进行了验证.     

Fuzzy harmonic mean operators

Harmonic mean is a conservative average, which is widely used to aggregate central tendency data. In the existing literature, the harmonic mean is generally considered as a fusion technique of numerical data information. In this paper, we investigate the situations in which the input data are expressed in fuzzy values and develop some fuzzy harmonic mean operators, such as fuzzy weighted harmonic mean operator, fuzzy ordered weighted harmonic mean operator, fuzzy hybrid harmonic mean operator, and so on. Especially, all these operators can be reduced to aggregate interval or real numbers. Then based on the developed operators, we present an approach to multiple attribute group decision making and illustrate it with a practical example. © 2008 Wiley Periodicals, Inc.     

Some geometric aggregation operators based on intuitionistic fuzzy sets

The weighted geometric (WG) operator and the ordered weighted geometric (OWG) operator are two common aggregation operators in the field of information fusion. But these two aggregation operators are usually used in situations where the given arguments are expressed as crisp numbers or linguistic values. In this paper, we develop some new geometric aggregation operators, such as the intuitionistic fuzzy weighted geometric (IFWG) operator, the intuitionistic fuzzy ordered weighted geometric (IFOWG) operator, and the intuitionistic fuzzy hybrid geometric (IFHG) operator, which extend the WG and OWG operators to accommodate the environment in which the given arguments are intuitionistic fuzzy sets which are characterized by a membership function and a non-membership function. Some numerical examples are given to illustrate the developed operators. Finally, we give an application of the IFHG operator to multiple attribute decision making based on intuitionistic fuzzy sets.     

Pythagorean hesitant fuzzy Hamacher aggregation operators and their application to multiple attribute decision making

Hamacher product is a t‐norm and Hamacher sum is a t‐conorm. They are good alternatives to algebraic product and algebraic sum, respectively. Nevertheless, it seems that most of the existing hesitant fuzzy aggregation operators are based on the algebraic operations. In this paper, we utilize Hamacher operations to develop some Pythagorean hesitant fuzzy aggregation operators: Pythagorean hesitant fuzzy Hamacher weighted average (PHFHWA) operator, Pythagorean hesitant fuzzy Hamacher weighted geometric (PHFHWG) operator, Pythagorean hesitant fuzzy Hamacher ordered weighted average (PHFHOWA) operator, Pythagorean hesitant fuzzy Hamacher ordered weighted geometric (PHFHOWG) operator, Pythagorean hesitant fuzzy Hamacher induced ordered weighted average (PHFHIOWA) operator, Pythagorean hesitant fuzzy Hamacher induced ordered weighted geometric (PHFHIOWG) operator, Pythagorean hesitant fuzzy Hamacher induced correlated aggregation operators, Pythagorean hesitant fuzzy Hamacher prioritized aggregation operators, and Pythagorean hesitant fuzzy Hamacher power aggregation operators. The special cases of these proposed operators are studied. Then, we have utilized these operators to develop some approaches to solve the Pythagorean hesitant fuzzy multiple attribute decision making problems. Finally, a practical example for green supplier selections in green supply chain management is given to verify the developed approach and to demonstrate its practicality and effectiveness.     

How to Guarantee Finite Termination of Verifying Global Optimization Codes

Convergence or finite termination of algorithms for solving problems of numerical analysis usually is shown only for their original theoretical versions, assuming that all operations appearing in the algorithms can be performed exactly.But in most cases the theoretical version of an algorithm cannot be realized on a computer and it is one of the main tasks of numerical mathematicians to find codeable versions of algorithms sharing the essential properties with their originals.The main problem is, that in any coded version at most rounded approximations of the operations appearing in the theoretical algorithm can be used, and that these approximations are defined only for the finite set of floating point numbers.So e.g. in codes for global optimization only rounded bisection is possible, and even this only finitely often in a meaningful way. In addition there are also problems with controlling rounding errors if underflow or graduated underflow might appear. These problems are often overlooked, even in codes for verifying global optimization.But it is possible to solve these problems by a simple but quite general implementable procedure, guaranteeing that a very natural stopping criterion is satisfied after finitely many steps.     

New exponential operational laws and their aggregation operators for interval‐valued Pythagorean fuzzy multicriteria decision‐making

In this article, we define two new exponential operational laws about the interval‐valued Pythagorean fuzzy set (IVPFS) and their corresponding aggregation operators. However, the exponential parameters (weights) of all the existing operational laws of IVPFSs are crisp values in IVPFS decision‐making problems. As a supplement, this paper first introduces new exponential operational laws of IVPFS, where bases are crisp values or interval numbers and exponents are interval‐valued Pythagorean fuzzy numbers. The prominent characteristic of these proposed operations is studied. Based on these laws, we develop some new weighted aggregation operators, namely the interval‐valued Pythagorean fuzzy weighted exponential averaging operator and the dual interval‐valued Pythagorean fuzzy weighted exponential averaging. Finally, a decision‐making approach is presented based on these operators and illustrated with some numerical examples to validate the developed approach.     

The Ordered Weighted Average in the Variance and the Covariance

The ordered weighted average (OWA) is an aggregation operator that provides a parameterized family of aggregation operators between the minimum and the maximum. This paper analyzes the use of the OWA in the variance and the covariance. It presents several extensions by using a unified framework between the weighted average and the OWA. Furthermore, it also develops other generalizations with induced aggregation operators and by using quasi‐arithmetic means. Several measures of correlation by using the OWA are introduced including a new type of Pearson coefficient. The paper ends with some numerical examples focused on the construction of interval and fuzzy numbers with the variance and the covariance.     

基于OWA算子的不同形式偏好信息的群决策方法

研究具有不同形式偏好信息的群决策问题.在描述效用值、序关系值、模糊判断矩阵和AHP判断矩阵等4种形式偏好信息的基础上,首先给出将不同形式的偏好信息转化为模糊判断矩阵形式的计算公式,然后基于OWA算子给出集结各决策者偏好信息和方案优选的方法,最后用一个算例证明了所提出方法的有效性.     

A new fuzzy weighted average (FWA) method based on left and right scores: An application for determining a suitable location for a gas oil station

The selection of a facility location from alternative locations is a multiple criteria decision making (MCDM) problem including both quantitative and qualitative criteria. In many real-life cases, determining the exact values for MCDM problems, and especially for facility location selection problems, is difficult or impossible, so the values of alternatives with respect to the criteria or/and the values of criteria weights are considered as fuzzy values (fuzzy numbers) such that the conventional crisp approaches for solving facility location selection problems and other MCDM problems tend to be less effective for dealing with the imprecise or vagueness nature of the linguistic assessments. In such conditions, fuzzy MCDM methods are applied for facility location selection problem and other fuzzy MCDM problems. In this paper, we propose a new fuzzy weighted average (FWA) method based on left and right scores for fuzzy MCDM problems. Moreover, we apply the proposed method to a real application. As a result, we found that the proposed method is practical for facility location selection problems. Besides, it seems that the proposed FWA method is very accurate, flexible, simple, and easy to use when compared to other versions of the FWA method.     

A Fuzzy Qualitative Framework for Connecting Robot Qualitative and Quantitative Representations

This paper proposes a novel framework for describing articulated robot kinematics motion with the goal of providing a unified representation by combining symbolic or qualitative functions and numerical sensing and control tasks in the context of intelligent robotics. First, fuzzy qualitative robot kinematics that provides theoretical preliminaries for the proposed robot motion representation is revisited. Second, a fuzzy qualitative framework based on clustering techniques is presented to connect numerical and symbolic robot representations. Built on the $k-{{bb AGOP}}$ operator (an extension of the ordered weighted aggregation operators), k-means and Gaussian functions are adapted to model a multimodal density of fuzzy qualitative kinematics parameters of a robot in both Cartesian and joint spaces; on the other hand, a mixture regressor and interpolation method are employed to convert Gaussian symbols into numerical values. Finally, simulation results in a PUMA 560 robot demonstrated that the proposed method effectively provides a two-way connection for robot representations used for both numerical and symbolic robotic tasks.      

Extension of the VIKOR method to dynamic intuitionistic fuzzy multiple attribute decision making

In this paper, we extend the VIKOR method for dynamic intuitionistic fuzzy multiple attribute decision making (DIF-MADM). Two new aggregation operators called dynamic intuitionistic fuzzy weighted geometric (DIFWG) operator and uncertain dynamic intuitionistic fuzzy weighted geometric (UDIFWG) operator are presented. Based on the DIFWA and UDIFWA operators respectively, we develop two procedures to solve the DIF-MADM problems where all attribute values are expressed in intuitionistic fuzzy numbers or interval-valued intuitionistic fuzzy numbers, which are collected at different periods. Finally, a numerical example is used to illustrate the applicability of the proposed approach.     

Linguistic group decision making with induced aggregation operators and probabilistic information

A new approach for linguistic group decision making by using probabilistic information and induced aggregation operators is presented. It is based on the induced linguistic probabilistic ordered weighted average (ILPOWA). It is an aggregation operator that uses probabilities and OWA operators in the same formulation considering the degree of importance that each concept has in the formulation. It uses complex attitudinal characters that can be assessed by using order inducing variables. Furthermore, it deals with an uncertain environment where the information cannot be studied in a numerical scale but it is possible to use linguistic variables. Several extensions to this approach are presented by using moving averages and Bonferroni means. The applicability of this approach is also studied with a focus on multi-criteria group decision making by using multi-person aggregation operators in order to deal with the opinion of several experts in the analysis. An illustrative example regarding importation strategies in the administration of a country is developed.     

加权模糊聚集算子研究

在数据挖掘、模糊专家系统和多Agent协同决策过程中,要经常面对信息聚集技术和对多个模糊数据来源进行聚集运算,一般用得最多的是合取、析取及加权平均等算子,但是不同的领域有着不同的需求,本文着重对加权聚集算子进行研究。首先,提出了加权平均关系与析取关系结合后的析取-加权平均算子,该算子解决了加权平均算子不能区分析取与合取的关系。然后,提出了一种最大加权平均算子和最小加权平均算子,该算子将最大最小值算子与加权平均算子进行了泛化,解决了同时考虑信息局部性特征与信息整体性特征的问题。理论分析表明,本文提出的加权模糊聚集算子对于模糊信息源的聚集运算起到了很好的补充和完善的功能。     

Aggregating information and ranking alternatives in decision making with intuitionistic multiplicative preference relations

The intuitionistic multiplicative preference relation (IMPR), whose all elements are measured by an unsymmetrical scale (Saaty's 1–9 scale) instead of the symmetrical scale in the intuitionistic fuzzy preference relation (IFPR), is suitable for describing the asymmetric preference information. In decision making process, one of the most crucial issues is how to rank alternatives from the given preference relation constructed by the decision maker. In this paper, two approaches are proposed for deriving the ranking orders of the alternatives from two different angles. To do it, a transformation mechanism is developed to transform an IMPR to a corresponding IFPR, and then all alternatives depicted by the given IMPR can be ranked via solving a familiar IFPR. In addition, the generalized intuitionistic multiplicative ordered weighted averaging (GIMOWA) and the geometric (GIMOWG) operators are given by taking fully account of the different weights associated with the particular ordered positions and their desirable properties are also discussed. After that, through a practical example, the proposed approaches are compared with the previous work and a numerical analysis of the results is also given.