Design and analysis of acceptance sampling plans based on intuitionistic fuzzy linguistic terms

Acceptance sampling plans (ASPs) offer inspection of a small set of items from a lot within a predefined plan to procure a certain output quality level with minimum cost in terms of time, effort, and damage to the inspected items. Although traditional ASPs use crisp plan parameters, quality characteristics of the incoming items or human evaluations about inspection process may contain uncertainties and may not always be defined as crisp values in real life problems.