An introduction to Z-numbers with interval type-2 fuzzy TOPSIS

• Main Authors: Nurnadiah, Zamri, Syibrah, Naim, Lazim, Abdullah, Binyamin, Yusoff
• Format: Conference or Workshop Item
• Language: English
• Published: 2018
• Subjects: Q Science (General); QA75 Electronic computers. Computer science
• Online Access: http://eprints.unisza.edu.my/1592/1/FH03-FIK-18-16968.pdf; http://eprints.unisza.edu.my/1592/

Decisions are based on ability to decide several possibilities. Decisions are uncertain, imprecise, incomplete and a challenge that is hard to meet. Z-numbers involve more uncertainties than fuzzy sets. They provide us with additional degree of freedom to represent the uncertainty and fuzziness of the real situations. In this paper, we introduce a Z-numbers with Interval Type-2 Fuzzy TOPSIS (IT2FTOPSIS) to handle uncertainty in decision problems. We provide an example to illustrate the idea of one-by-one steps Z-numbers with IT2FTOPSIS based Fuzzy Multi-Criteria Decision Making (FMCDM). The proposed method provides us with an another useful way to handle FMCDM problems in a more intelligent and flexible manner due to the fact that it uses Z-numbers and interval type-2 fuzzy sets (IT2FSs).