Title :
Semi-heuristic target-based fuzzy decision procedures: Towards a new interval justification
Author :
Servin, Christian ; Huynh, Van-Nam ; Nakamori, Yoshiteru
Author_Institution :
Program of Comput. Sci., Univ. of Texas at El Paso, El Paso, TX, USA
Abstract :
To more adequately describe human decision making, V.-N. Huynh, Y. Nakamori, and others proposed a special semi-heuristic target-based fuzzy decision procedure. A usual justification for this procedure is based on the selection of the simplest possible membership functions and “and”- and “or”-operations; if we use more complex membership functions and “and”- and “or”-operations, we get different results. Interestingly, in practical applications, the procedure based on the simplest choices most adequately describes human preferences. It is therefore desirable to come up with a justification that explains this empirical fact. Such a justification is proposed in this paper.
Keywords :
decision making; fuzzy set theory; human decision making; interval justification; semiheuristic target-based fuzzy decision procedures; Decision making; Educational institutions; Fuzzy sets; Linear programming; Presses; Probability distribution; Uncertainty;
Conference_Titel :
Fuzzy Information Processing Society (NAFIPS), 2012 Annual Meeting of the North American
Conference_Location :
Berkeley, CA
Print_ISBN :
978-1-4673-2336-9
Electronic_ISBN :
pending
DOI :
10.1109/NAFIPS.2012.6291042