[HTML][HTML] Representing uncertainty and imprecision in machine learning: A survey on belief functions

Z Liu, S Letchmunan - Journal of King Saud University-Computer and …, 2024 - Elsevier
Uncertainty and imprecision accompany the world we live in and occur in almost every
event. How to better interpret and manage uncertainty and imprecision play a vital role in …

Fermatean fuzzy similarity measures based on Tanimoto and Sørensen coefficients with applications to pattern classification, medical diagnosis and clustering …

Z Liu - Engineering Applications of Artificial Intelligence, 2024 - Elsevier
Fermatean fuzzy sets (FFSs) have emerged as a powerful tool for handling uncertain
information and have been successfully applied in various domains. However, the existing …

[HTML][HTML] Adaptive weighted multi-view evidential clustering with feature preference

Z Liu, H Huang, S Letchmunan, M Deveci - Knowledge-Based Systems, 2024 - Elsevier
Multi-view clustering has attracted substantial attention thanks to its ability to integrate
information from diverse views. However, the existing methods can only generate hard or …

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 …

[HTML][HTML] Self-adaptive attribute weighted neutrosophic c-means clustering for biomedical applications

Z Liu, H Qiu, S Letchmunan - Alexandria Engineering Journal, 2024 - Elsevier
The applications of clustering in biomedical is pervasive and ubiquitous. A typical example
is gene expression data analysis, where clustering is emerging as a powerful solution for …

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 …

An Extensive Review of the Literature Using the Diophantine Equations to Study Fuzzy Set Theory

KM Abirami, N Veena, R Srikanth… - … of Mathematics and …, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
Every field in mathematics has made significant progress in research with fuzzy sets.
Numerous application fields were discovered in both empirical and theoretical …

[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 …