Type-2 Fuzzy Decision-Making Theories, Methodologies and Applications (Uncertainty and Operations Research)

This book integrates the type-2 fuzzy sets and multiple criteria decision making analysis in recent years and offers an authoritative treatise on the essential topics, both at the theoretical and applied end. In this book, some basic theory, type-2 fuzzy sets, methodology, algorithms, are introduced and then some compelling case studies in decision problems are covered in depth. The authors offer an authoritative treatise on the essential topics, both at the theoretical and applied end; In a systematic and logically organized way, the book exposes the reader to the essentials of the theory of type-2 fuzzy sets, methodology, algorithms, and their applications. Numerous techniques of decision making are carefully generalized by bringing the ideas of type-2 fuzzy sets; this concerns well-known methods including TOPSIS, Analytical Network Process, TODIM, and VIKOR. This book exposes the readers to the essentials of the theory of type-2 fuzzy sets, methodology, algorithms, and their applications.

Jindong Qin has published over 30 papers in uncertainty decision analysis area and these research results have been published in the European Journal of Operational Research, the IEEE Transactions on Fuzzy Systems. He currently serves as an Associate Editor for the International Journal of Fuzzy Systems, the International Journal of Computational Intelligence Systems, and Granular Computing.