Type-2 Fuzzy Decision-Making Theories, Methodologies and Applications

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-xv

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2. Type-2 Fuzzy Sets and Its Extensions

   • Jindong Qin, Xinwang Liu

   Pages 1-11

3. Multiple Criteria Decision Making with Type-2 Fuzzy Information

   • Jindong Qin, Xinwang Liu

   Pages 13-25

4. Interval Type-2 Fuzzy Aggregation Operations Based on Maclaurin Means and Its Extensions

   • Jindong Qin, Xinwang Liu

   Pages 27-56

5. Interval Type-2 Fuzzy Combined Ranking Method

   • Jindong Qin, Xinwang Liu

   Pages 57-84

6. Interval Type-2 Fuzzy Decision Making Based on TOPSIS

   • Jindong Qin, Xinwang Liu

   Pages 85-106

7. Interval Type-2 Fuzzy Decision Making Based on ANP

   • Jindong Qin, Xinwang Liu

   Pages 107-128

8. Interval Type-2 Fuzzy Decision Making Based on TODIM

   • Jindong Qin, Xinwang Liu

   Pages 129-160

9. Interval Type-2 Fuzzy Decision Making Based on LINMAP

   • Jindong Qin, Xinwang Liu

   Pages 161-186

10. An Integrated Interval Type-2 Fuzzy Decision Making Based on VIKOR and Prospect Theory

    • Jindong Qin, Xinwang Liu

    Pages 187-219

11. Interval Type-2 Fuzzy Decision Making Based on Granular Computing and Its Application in Personalized Recommendation

    • Jindong Qin, Xinwang Liu

    Pages 221-247

12. Interval Type-2 Fuzzy Group Decision Making by Integrating Improved Best Worst Method with COPRAS for Emergency Material Supplier Selection

    • Jindong Qin, Xinwang Liu

    Pages 249-271

This book integrates the type-2 fuzzy sets and multiple criteria decision making analysis in recent years and offers an authoritative treatise on the essential topics, both at the theoretical and applied end. In this book, some basic theory, type-2 fuzzy sets, methodology, algorithms, are introduced and then some compelling case studies in decision problems are covered in depth. The authors offer an authoritative treatise on the essential topics, both at the theoretical and applied end; In a systematic and logically organized way, the book exposes the reader to the essentials of the theory of type-2 fuzzy sets, methodology, algorithms, and their applications. Numerous techniques of decision making are carefully generalized by bringing the ideas of type-2 fuzzy sets; this concerns well-known methods including TOPSIS, Analytical Network Process, TODIM, and VIKOR. This book exposes the readers to the essentials of the theory of type-2 fuzzy sets, methodology, algorithms, and their applications.

• type-2
• decision making
• fuzzy sets
• multiple criteria analysis
• group decision making
• computing with words
• aggregation operations
• ranking method
• granular computing
• supplier selection

“The book is well-written. … This book is a very valuable contribution to the field of multiple criteria decision making. I can recommend it to the practitioners dealing in their professional life with MCDM (e.g. managers and engineers) but also to the researchers in the area and students of mathematics, IT, engineering or management.” (Marcin Anholcer, zbMATH 1447.91002, 2020)

• School of Management, Wuhan University of Technology, Wuhan, China

  Jindong Qin

• School of Economics and Management, Southeast University, Nanjing, China

  Xinwang Liu

Jindong Qin has published over 30 papers in uncertainty decision analysis area and these research results have been published in the European Journal of Operational Research, the IEEE Transactions on Fuzzy Systems. He currently serves as an Associate Editor for the International Journal of Fuzzy Systems, the International Journal of Computational Intelligence Systems, and Granular Computing.

Xinwang Liu is currently a Professor with the Department of Management Science and Engineering, School of Economics and Management, Southeast University. He has authored or coauthored more than 100 publications of journals and international conferences. His research interests include type-2 fuzzy logic, aggregation operators, recommend systems and fuzzy decision making.

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