Multiperson Decision Making Models Using Fuzzy Sets And Possibility Theory

eBook Download

BOOK EXCERPT:

Decision making is certainly a very crucial component of many human activities. It is, therefore, not surprising that models of decisions play a very important role not only in decision theory but also in areas such as operations Research, Management science, social Psychology etc . . The basic model of a decision in classical normative decision theory has very little in common with real decision making: It portrays a decision as a clear-cut act of choice, performed by one individual decision maker and in which states of nature, possible actions, results and preferences are well and crisply defined. The only compo nent in which uncertainty is permitted is the occurence of the different states of nature, for which probabilistic descriptions are allowed. These probabilities are generally assumed to be known numerically, i. e. as single probabili ties or as probability distribution functions. Extensions of this basic model can primarily be conceived in three directions: 1. Rather than a single decision maker there are several decision makers involved. This has lead to the areas of game theory, team theory and group decision theory. 2. The preference or utility function is not single valued but rather vector valued. This extension is considered in multiattribute utility theory and in multicritieria analysis. 3.

Product Details :

Genre : Business & Economics
Author : J. Kacprzyk
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Release : 2012-12-06
File : 349 Pages
ISBN-13 : 9789400921092


Fuzzy Logic And Soft Computing

eBook Download

BOOK EXCERPT:

Soft computing is a new, emerging discipline rooted in a group of technologies that aim to exploit the tolerance for imprecision and uncertainty in achieving solutions to complex problems. The principal components of soft computing are fuzzy logic, neurocomputing, genetic algorithms and probabilistic reasoning.This volume is a collection of up-to-date articles giving a snapshot of the current state of the field. It covers the whole expanse, from theoretical foundations to applications. The contributors are among the world leaders in the field.

Product Details :

Genre : Computers
Author : Bernadette Bouchon-Meunier
Publisher : World Scientific
Release : 1995
File : 512 Pages
ISBN-13 : 9810223455


Fuzzy Sets And Their Extensions Representation Aggregation And Models

eBook Download

BOOK EXCERPT:

This carefully edited book presents an up-to-date state of current research in the use of fuzzy sets and their extensions. It pays particular attention to foundation issues and to their application to four important areas where fuzzy sets are seen to be an important tool for modeling and solving problems. The book’s 34 chapters deal with the subject with clarity and effectiveness. They include four review papers introducing some non-standard representations

Product Details :

Genre : Computers
Author : Humberto Bustince
Publisher : Springer
Release : 2007-10-30
File : 674 Pages
ISBN-13 : 9783540737230


Tools For Making Acute Risk Decisions

eBook Download

BOOK EXCERPT:

The complexity of today's risk decisions is well known. Beyond cost and risk there are many other factors contributing to these decisions, including type of risk (such as human injury or fatality), the economic impact on the local community, profitability, availability of capital, alternatives for reducing or eliminating the risk, costs of implementing alternatives, codes, standards, regulation, and good industry practice. This book presents a large range of decision aids for risk analysts and decision makers in industry so that vital decisions can be made in a more consistent, logical, and rigorous manner. Though primarily aimed at the process industry, this book can be used by anyone who makes similar decisions in other industries, including those in management science.

Product Details :

Genre : Technology & Engineering
Author : CCPS (Center for Chemical Process Safety)
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Release : 2010-09-14
File : 498 Pages
ISBN-13 : 9780470938164


Computing With Words In Information Intelligent Systems 2

eBook Download

BOOK EXCERPT:

These two volumes consisting of Foundations and Applications provide the current status of theoretical and empirical developments in "computing with words". In philosophy, the twentieth century is said to be the century of language. This is mainly due to Wittgenstein who said: "The meaning of a word is its use in the language game". "The concept game is a concept with blurred edges". In the first phrase, "the language game" implies the everyday human activity with language, and in the latter, "game" simply implies an ordinary word. Thus, Wittgenstein precisely stated that a word is fuzzy in real life. Unfortunately this idea about a word was not accepted in the conventional science. We had to wait for Zadeh's fuzzy sets theory. Remembering Wittgenstein's statement, we should consider, on the one hand, the concept of "computing with words" from a philosophical point of view. It deeply relates to the everyday use of a word in which the meaning of a word is fuzzy in its nature.

Product Details :

Genre : Computers
Author : Lotfi Zadeh
Publisher : Physica
Release : 2013-06-29
File : 610 Pages
ISBN-13 : 9783790818727


The Ordered Weighted Averaging Operators

eBook Download

BOOK EXCERPT:

Aggregation plays a central role in many of the technological tasks we are faced with. The importance of this process will become even greater as we move more and more toward becoming an information-cent.ered society, us is happening with the rapid growth of the Internet and the World Wirle Weh. Here we shall be faced with many issues related to the fusion of information. One very pressing issue here is the development of mechanisms to help search for information, a problem that clearly has a strong aggregation-related component. More generally, in order to model the sophisticated ways in which human beings process information, as well as going beyond the human capa bilities, we need provide a basket of aggregation tools. The centrality of aggregation in human thought can be be very clearly seen by looking at neural networks, a technology motivated by modeling the human brain. One can see that the basic operations involved in these networks are learning and aggregation. The Ordered Weighted Averaging (OWA) operators provide a parameter ized family of aggregation operators which include many of the well-known operators such as the maximum, minimum and the simple average.

Product Details :

Genre : Mathematics
Author : Ronald R. Yager
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Release : 2012-12-06
File : 343 Pages
ISBN-13 : 9781461561231


Limit Theorems And Applications Of Set Valued And Fuzzy Set Valued Random Variables

eBook Download

BOOK EXCERPT:

After the pioneering works by Robbins {1944, 1945) and Choquet (1955), the notation of a set-valued random variable (called a random closed set in literatures) was systematically introduced by Kendall {1974) and Matheron {1975). It is well known that the theory of set-valued random variables is a natural extension of that of general real-valued random variables or random vectors. However, owing to the topological structure of the space of closed sets and special features of set-theoretic operations ( cf. Beer [27]), set-valued random variables have many special properties. This gives new meanings for the classical probability theory. As a result of the development in this area in the past more than 30 years, the theory of set-valued random variables with many applications has become one of new and active branches in probability theory. In practice also, we are often faced with random experiments whose outcomes are not numbers but are expressed in inexact linguistic terms.

Product Details :

Genre : Mathematics
Author : Shoumei Li
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Release : 2013-04-17
File : 399 Pages
ISBN-13 : 9789401599320


Multicriteria Decision Making Under Conditions Of Uncertainty

eBook Download

BOOK EXCERPT:

A guide to the various models and methods to multicriteria decision-making in conditions of uncertainty presented in a systematic approach Multicriteria Decision-Making under Conditions of Uncertainty presents approaches that help to answer the fundamental questions at the center of all decision-making problems: "What to do?" and "How to do it?" The book explores methods of representing and handling diverse manifestations of the uncertainty factor and a multicriteria nature of problems that can arise in system design, planning, operation, and control. The authors—noted experts on the topic—and their book covers essential questions, including notions and fundamental concepts of fuzzy sets, models and methods of multiobjective as well as multiattribute decision-making, the classical approach to dealing with uncertainty of information and its generalization for analyzing multicriteria problems in condition of uncertainty, and more. This comprehensive book contains information on "harmonious solutions" in multiobjective problem-solving (analyzing “i>X, F> models), construction and analysis of “i>X, R/i” models, results aimed at generating robust solutions in analyzing multicriteria problems under uncertainty, and more. In addition, the book includes illustrative examples of various applications, including real-world case studies related to the authors’ various industrial projects. This important resource: Explains the design and processing aspect of fuzzy sets, including construction of membership functions, fuzzy numbers, fuzzy relations, aggregation operations, and fuzzy sets transformations Describes models of multiobjective decision-making (“i>X. M/i” models), their analysis on the basis of using the Bellman-Zadeh approach to decision-making in a fuzzy environment, and their diverse applications, including multicriteria allocation of resources Investigates models of multiattribute decision-making (“i>X, R/i” models) and their analysis on the basis of the construction and processing of fuzzy preference relations as well as demonstrating their applications to solve diverse classes of multiattribute problems Explores notions of payoff matrices and fuzzy-set-based generalization and modification of the classic approach to decision-making under conditions of uncertainty to generate robust solutions in analyzing multicriteria problems Written for students, researchers and practitioners in disciplines in which decision-making is of paramount relevance, Multicriteria Decision-Making under Conditions of Uncertainty presents a systematic and current approach that encompasses a range of models and methods as well as new applications.

Product Details :

Genre : Technology & Engineering
Author : Petr Ekel
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Release : 2019-11-07
File : 367 Pages
ISBN-13 : 9781119534907


Modeling Decisions For Artificial Intelligence

eBook Download

BOOK EXCERPT:

This volume contains papers presented at the 7th International Conference on Modeling Decisions for Arti?cial Intelligence (MDAI 2010), held in Perpignan, France, October 27–29. This conference followed MDAI 2004 (Barcelona, C- alonia, Spain), MDAI 2005 (Tsukuba, Japan), MDAI 2006 (Tarragona, Cata- nia, Spain), MDAI 2007 (Kitakyushu, Japan), MDAI 2008 (Sabadell, Catalonia, Spain), and MDAI 2009 (Awaji Island, Japan) with proceedings also published in the LNAI series (Vols. 3131, 3558, 3885, 4617, 5285, and 5861). The aim of this conference was to provide a forum for researchers to discuss theory and tools for modeling decisions, as well as applications that encompass decision-making processes and information fusion techniques. The organizers received 43 papers from 12 di?erent countries, from Europe, Asia, Australia and Africa, 25 of which are published in this volume. Each s- mission received at least two reviews from the Program Committee and a few externalreviewers.Wewouldliketoexpressourgratitudetothemfortheirwork. The plenary talks presented at the conference are also included in this volume. TheconferencewassupportedbytheCNRS:CentreNationaldelaRecherche Scienti?que,theUniversit´ edePerpignanVia Domitia,theELIAUS:Laboratoire Electronique Informatique Automatique Syst` emes, IMERIR: Ecole d'Ing´ enierie Informatique et Robotique, the UNESCO Chair in Data Privacy, the Japan - cietyforFuzzyTheoryandIntelligentInformatics(SOFT),theCatalanAssoc- tionfor Arti?cialIntelligence(ACIA), the EuropeanSociety for Fuzzy Logicand Technology(EUSFLAT), the Spanish MEC(ARES—CONSOLIDER INGENIO 2010 CSD2007-00004).

Product Details :

Genre : Computers
Author : Vicenç Torra
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Release : 2010-10-19
File : 309 Pages
ISBN-13 : 9783642162916


Fuzzy Sets In Decision Analysis Operations Research And Statistics

eBook Download

BOOK EXCERPT:

Fuzzy Sets in Decision Analysis, Operations Research and Statistics includes chapters on fuzzy preference modeling, multiple criteria analysis, ranking and sorting methods, group decision-making and fuzzy game theory. It also presents optimization techniques such as fuzzy linear and non-linear programming, applications to graph problems and fuzzy combinatorial methods such as fuzzy dynamic programming. In addition, the book also accounts for advances in fuzzy data analysis, fuzzy statistics, and applications to reliability analysis. These topics are covered within four parts: Decision Making, Mathematical Programming, Statistics and Data Analysis, and Reliability, Maintenance and Replacement. The scope and content of the book has resulted from multiple interactions between the editor of the volume, the series editors, the series advisory board, and experts in each chapter area. Each chapter was written by a well-known researcher on the topic and reviewed by other experts in the area. These expert reviewers sometimes became co-authors because of the extent of their contribution to the chapter. As a result, twenty-five authors from twelve countries and four continents were involved in the creation of the 13 chapters, which enhances the international character of the project and gives an idea of how carefully the Handbook has been developed.

Product Details :

Genre : Mathematics
Author : Roman Slowiński
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Release : 2012-12-06
File : 467 Pages
ISBN-13 : 9781461556459