In structural engineering, model updating is often used for non-destructive damage
assessment: by calibrating stiffness parameters of finite element models based on …

Decision makers involved in complex decision making problems usually provide information
about their preferences by eliciting their knowledge with different assessments. Usually, the …

Information granules, as encountered in natural language, are implicit in nature. To make
them fully operational so they can be effectively used to analyze and design intelligent …

Computing with Words (CW) methodology has been used in several different environments
to narrow the differences between human reasoning and computing. As Decision Making is …

A possibility measure can encode a family of probability measures. This fact is the basis for a
transformation of a probability distribution into a possibility distribution that generalises the …

As Geographic Information Systems (GIS) have developed and their applications have been
extended, the issue of uncertainty has become increasingly recognized. It is highlighted by …

This article introduces complemental fuzzy sets, explains their semantics, and presents a
subclass of this model that generalizes intuitionistic fuzzy sets in a novel manner. It also …

Fuzzy sets were first proposed by Lotfi Zadeh in his seminal paper [366] in 1965, and ever
since have been a center of many discussions, fervently admired and condemned. Both …

We try to provide a tentative assessment of the role of fuzzy sets in decision analysis. We
discuss membership functions, aggregation operations, linguistic variables, fuzzy intervals …

This paper discusses basic notions underlying fuzzy sets, especially gradualness,
uncertainty, vagueness and bipolarity, in order to clarify the significance of using fuzzy sets …