Original Articles: 2014 Vol: 6 Issue: 7
Multiattribute decision making models and methods using interval-valued fuzzy sets
Abstract
The concept of interval-valued fuzzy sets is the generalization of the concept of fuzzy sets. The theory of
interval-valued fuzzy sets is well suited to dealing with vagueness. Recently, interval-valued fuzzy sets have been
used to build soft decision making models that can accommodate imprecise information. However, it seems that
there is little investigation on multicriteria decision making using interval-valued fuzzy sets with multiple criteria
being explicitly taken into account. In this paper, multiattribute decision making using interval-valued fuzzy sets is
investigated, in which multiple criteria are explicitly considered, several linear programming models are
constructed to generate optimal weights for attributes, and the corresponding decision-making methods have also
been proposed. Feasibility and effectiveness of the proposed method are illustrated using a numerical example.