Advances in Fuzzy Decision-Making and Applications
A special issue of Mathematics (ISSN 2227-7390). This special issue belongs to the section "D2: Operations Research and Fuzzy Decision Making".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 28 February 2027 | Viewed by 142
Special Issue Editors
Interests: fuzzy sets; business intelligence; big data analytics; health informatics; large databases and big data repositories; digital media storage architectures
Interests: intuitionistic fuzzy sets (IFS); generalized nets (GN); index matrices; intercriteria analysis
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
We would like to invite you to submit original and innovative research contributions as part of the Special Issue on “Advances in Fuzzy Decision-Making and Applications”.
Fuzzy decision-making (FDM) has evolved from basic fuzzy sets to sophisticated multi-dimensional models that handle the inherent ambiguity of human reasoning and big data. Current advances focus on extensions of fuzzy logic that can model uncertainty with greater precision across diverse sectors like sustainable engineering, healthcare, and finance.
Key theoretical advances:
- Extended Fuzzy Sets: Modern FDM utilizes advanced structures like intuitionistic fuzzy sets (IFS), etc., to better capture degrees of membership and non-membership in decision problems.
- Hybrid Intelligent Systems: Research now frequently combines fuzzy logic with machine learning (ML), genetic algorithms, and neural networks to create self-tuning models that improve predictive accuracy.
- Consensus Modelling: Advances in group decision-making focus on consensus models to manage differing expert opinions, particularly in large-scale or sustainable management projects.
- Semantic understanding: Combining fuzzy logic with transformers creates a powerful hybrid framework for decision-making that addresses both deep semantic understanding and vagueness/uncertainty in unstructured data and complex classification by handling the nuanced and ambiguous nature of human language.
Prominent Applications
- Sustainable Management: FDM is extensively used for sustainable supplier selection, water resource management, and green construction practices.
- Healthcare & Diagnosis: fuzzy systems have shown significant reduction in diagnostic errors by better handling the uncertainty of patient symptoms.
- Industrial & Systems Control:
- Smart Grids: Hybrid fuzzy-genetic algorithms have reduced energy consumption in smart grids.
- Automotive: Implementation of fuzzy logic in antiskid braking systems and autonomous vehicle control for enhanced safety.
- Medical Diagnosis: Intuitionistic fuzzy sets combined with network structures (GNs) are used to handle the uncertainty and hesitation involved in medical diagnostics.
- Finance & Investment: Tools are used to evaluate leadership competencies during digital transformation, while others prioritize venture capital start-up investments under high uncertainty.
Dr. Panagiotis Chountas
Prof. Dr. Krassimir Atanassov
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- fuzzy set theory
- fuzzy decision making
- aggregation operators
- hybrid systems
- decision science trends
- fuzzy and BERT
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