New distance measures of complex Fermatean fuzzy sets with applications in decision making and clustering problems

Z Liu, S Zhu, T Senapati, M Deveci, D Pamucar… - Information …, 2025 - Elsevier
Abstract Complex Fermatean fuzzy sets (CFFSs) integrate the ideas of complex fuzzy sets
and Fermatean fuzzy sets, where the membership, non-membership, and hesitancy degrees …

Enhancements of evidential c-means algorithms: a clustering framework via feature-weight learning

Z Liu, H Qiu, T Senapati, M Lin, L Abualigah… - Expert Systems with …, 2025 - Elsevier
As a core paradigm of the evidential clustering algorithm, evidential c-means (ECM) offers a
more flexible credal partition to characterize uncertainty and imprecision in cluster …

A belief similarity measure for Dempster-Shafer evidence theory and application in decision making

Z Liu - Journal of Soft Computing and Decision Analytics, 2024 - jscda-journal.org
How to effectively deal with uncertain and imprecise information in decision making is a
complex task. Dempster-Shafer evidence theory (DSET) is widely used for handling such …

Novel α-divergence measures on picture fuzzy sets and interval-valued picture fuzzy sets with diverse applications

S Zhu, Z Liu, G Ulutagay, M Deveci… - Engineering Applications of …, 2024 - Elsevier
Currently, many studies have developed distance or divergence measures between
intuitionistic fuzzy sets (IFSs) and interval-valued fuzzy sets (IvFSs). As a generalization of …

A survey of evidential clustering: Definitions, methods, and applications

Z Zhang, Y Zhang, H Tian, A Martin, Z Liu, W Ding - Information Fusion, 2025 - Elsevier
In the realm of information fusion, clustering stands out as a common subject and is
extensively applied across various fields. Evidential clustering, an increasingly popular …

[HTML][HTML] An effective multi-source data fusion approach based on α-divergence in belief functions theory with applications to air target recognition and fault diagnosis

Z Liu, M Deveci, D Pamučar, W Pedrycz - Information Fusion, 2024 - Elsevier
Belief functions theory (BFT) plays a critical role in addressing uncertainty and imprecision in
multi-source data fusion. Unfortunately, the application of Dempster's rule in BFT often …

Evidential deep partial multi-view classification with discount fusion

H Huang, Z Liu, S Letchmunan, M Deveci, M Lin… - arXiv preprint arXiv …, 2024 - arxiv.org
Incomplete multi-view data classification poses significant challenges due to the common
issue of missing views in real-world scenarios. Despite advancements, existing methods …

[HTML][HTML] Multi-view neutrosophic c-means clustering algorithms

Z Liu, H Qiu, M Deveci, W Pedrycz, P Siarry - Expert Systems with …, 2025 - Elsevier
Multi-view clustering has become increasingly pervasive and prominent as multiple sources
often provide different representations of information. However, existing multi-view clustering …

Multi-view evidential c-means clustering with view-weight and feature-weight learning

Z Liu, H Qiu, S Letchmunan, M Deveci… - Fuzzy Sets and …, 2025 - Elsevier
Multi-view clustering remains a challenging task due to the potential overlap of clusters and
variability across different views, which causes uncertainty and imprecision in cluster …

A new sine similarity measure based on evidence theory for conflict management

Z Liu - Communications in Statistics-Theory and Methods, 2024 - Taylor & Francis
Evidence theory (ET) has gained significant attention in various fields due to its advantages
over probability theory. However, highly conflicting evidence can sometimes yield …