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  • Article
  • Open Access
6 Citations
3,399 Views
17 Pages

29 August 2019

To address issues involving inconsistencies, this paper proposes a stochastic multi-criteria group decision making algorithm based on neutrosophic soft sets, which includes a pair of asymmetric functions: Truth-membership and false-membership, and an...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Symmetry in Applied Mathematics)
  • Article
  • Open Access
3,649 Views
19 Pages

Another View on the Middle East Conflict Analysis

  • Noor Rehman,
  • Syed Inayat Ali Shah,
  • Abbas Ali,
  • Sun Young Jang and
  • Choonkil Park

3 September 2018

Decision making is a cognitive process for evaluating data with certain attributes to come up with the best option, in terms of the preferences of decision makers. Conflicts and disagreements occur in most real world problems and involve the applicat...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1,059 Views
24 Pages

Advances in Near Soft Sets and Their Applications in Similarity-Based Decision Making

  • Alkan Özkan,
  • James Peters,
  • Faruk Özger,
  • Metin Duman and
  • Merve Ersoy

4 April 2026

In this study, a generalized and advanced form of the near soft set theory (NST) framework is proposed for information aggregation (IA) processes. The primary motivation of the study is to address the lack of similarity-based uncertainty modeling in...

(This article belongs to the Section B: Mathematics)
  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
1,903 Views
17 Pages

27 February 2024

Dynamic decision-making is the process of seeking optimal choice with multiple related attributes under the multi-time-point situation. Considering that the time-varying nature of decision information can have a specific impact on the psychology of d...

  • Article
  • Open Access
17 Citations
3,560 Views
28 Pages

Improved Dominance Soft Set Based Decision Rules with Pruning for Leukemia Image Classification

  • Ganesan Jothi,
  • Hannah H. Inbarani,
  • Ahmad Taher Azar,
  • Anis Koubaa,
  • Nashwa Ahmad Kamal and
  • Khaled M. Fouad

Acute lymphoblastic leukemia is a well-known type of pediatric cancer that affects the blood and bone marrow. If left untreated, it ends in fatal conditions due to its proliferation into the circulation system and other indispensable organs. All over...

(This article belongs to the Section Artificial Intelligence)
  • Article
  • Open Access
17 Citations
2,434 Views
14 Pages

A Contribution to the Theory of Soft Sets via Generalized Relaxed Operations

  • Basit Ali,
  • Naeem Saleem,
  • Nozara Sundus,
  • Sana Khaleeq,
  • Muhammad Saeed and
  • Reny George

27 July 2022

Soft set theory has evolved to provide a set of valuable tools for dealing with ambiguity and uncertainty in a variety of data structures related to real-world challenges. A soft set is characterized via a multivalued function of a set of parameters...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue New Advances in Fuzzy Metric Spaces, Soft Metric Spaces, and Other Related Structures)
  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
1,232 Views
27 Pages

RMVC: A Validated Algorithmic Framework for Decision-Making Under Uncertainty

  • Abdurrahman Dayioglu,
  • Fatma Ozen Erdogan and
  • Basri Celik

21 August 2025

The reliability of decision-making algorithms within soft set theory is fundamentally constrained by their underlying membership functions. Traditional binary approaches overlook the implicit connections between the attributes a candidate possesses a...

(This article belongs to the Section E1: Mathematics and Computer Science)
  • Article
  • Open Access
19 Citations
3,545 Views
26 Pages

23 February 2021

The main goal of this publication is to show that the basic constructions in the theories of fuzzy sets, fuzzy soft sets, fuzzy hesitant sets or intuitionistic fuzzy sets have a common background, based on the theory of monads in categories. It is pr...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Fuzzy Sets and Soft Computing)
  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
2,437 Views
11 Pages

Prediction of Heatwave Using Advanced Soft Computing Technique

  • Ratnakar Das,
  • Jibitesh Mishra,
  • Pradyumna Kumar Pattnaik and
  • Muhammad Mubashir Bhatti

7 August 2023

At present, there is no suitable instrument available to simulate modeling the thermal performance of various areas of our states due to its complicated meteorological behavior. To accurately predict a heatwave, we studied the research gaps and curre...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Impact and Influence of Artificial Intelligence Technology and Computing)
  • Article
  • Open Access
8 Citations
3,661 Views
32 Pages

6 May 2025

This study introduces a novel framework leveraging Rough Set Theory (RST)-based feature selection—MLReduct, MLSpecialReduct, and MLFuzzyRoughSet—to enhance machine learning performance on uncertain data. Applied to a private cardiovascula...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Data and Text Mining: New Approaches, Achievements and Applications)
  • Article
  • Open Access
28 Citations
3,988 Views
19 Pages

9 March 2019

Contemporary research has refined systems with complex fuzzy sets in order to improve the design and model of real-life applications. Symmetry and antisymmetry are basic characteristics of binary relations used when modeling the decision maker’...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Multi-Criteria Decision Aid methods in fuzzy decision problems)
  • Article
  • Open Access
5 Citations
2,282 Views
14 Pages

31 October 2020

Do the topologies of each dimension have to be same and metrizable for metricization of any space? I show that this is not necessary with monad metrizable spaces. For example, a monad metrizable space may have got any indiscrete topologies, discrete...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue New Advances in Fuzzy Metric Spaces, Soft Metric Spaces, and Other Related Structures)
  • Article
  • Open Access
18 Citations
4,200 Views
10 Pages

New Soft Set Based Class of Linear Algebraic Codes

  • Mumtaz Ali,
  • Huma Khan,
  • Le Hoang Son,
  • Florentin Smarandache and
  • W. B. Vasantha Kandasamy

16 October 2018

In this paper, we design and develop a new class of linear algebraic codes defined as soft linear algebraic codes using soft sets. The advantage of using these codes is that they have the ability to transmit m-distinct messages to m-set of receivers...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
2,826 Views
20 Pages

11 February 2024

This research introduces a rule-based decision-making model to investigate corporate governance, which has garnered increasing attention within financial markets. However, the existing corporate governance model developed by the Security and Future I...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Multiple-Criteria Decision-Making and Computational Intelligence: Recent Applications II)
  • Article
  • Open Access
16 Citations
3,572 Views
20 Pages

A Theoretical Development of Cubic Pythagorean Fuzzy Soft Set with Its Application in Multi-Attribute Decision Making

  • Muhammad Saeed,
  • Muhammad Haris Saeed,
  • Rimsha Shafaqat,
  • Salvatore Sessa,
  • Umar Ishtiaq and
  • Ferdinando di Martino

13 December 2022

Scientific progression has allowed researchers to develop novel and innovative ways to deal with uncertainty in data, allowing for the development of more precise and accurate data representation models. This paper aims to extend an already reported...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Recent Advances in Fuzzy Optimization Methods and Models)
  • Editorial
  • Open Access
40 Citations
10,709 Views
7 Pages

16 May 2018

With the surging complexity of real-world problems in important domains such as sustainability, there is a need to leverage advanced modern computational methods or intelligent techniques to support decisions or policy-making. In this Special Issue,...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Advances in Multiple Criteria Decision Making for Sustainability: Modeling and Applications)
  • Article
  • Open Access
23 Citations
5,363 Views
27 Pages

Neutrosophic Soft Rough Graphs with Application

  • Muhammad Akram,
  • Hafsa M. Malik,
  • Sundas Shahzadi and
  • Florentin Smarandache

26 February 2018

Neutrosophic sets (NSs) handle uncertain information while fuzzy sets (FSs) and intuitionistic fuzzy sets (IFs) fail to handle indeterminate information. Soft set theory, neutrosophic set theory, and rough set theory are different mathematical models...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Neutrosophic Multi-Criteria Decision Making)
  • Article
  • Open Access
22 Citations
3,140 Views
37 Pages

Belief and Possibility Belief Interval-Valued N-Soft Set and Their Applications in Multi-Attribute Decision-Making Problems

  • Shahbaz Ali,
  • Muneeba Kousar,
  • Qin Xin,
  • Dragan Pamučar,
  • Muhammad Shazib Hameed and
  • Rabia Fayyaz

13 November 2021

In this research article, we motivate and introduce the concept of possibility belief interval-valued N-soft sets. It has a great significance for enhancing the performance of decision-making procedures in many theories of uncertainty. The N-soft set...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Entropy in Soft Computing and Machine Learning Algorithms)
  • Article
  • Open Access
665 Views
30 Pages

16 March 2026

In this paper, a new type of soft group called the soft symmetric difference group (SSD-group) is introduced and systematically developed. This structure is constructed by integrating soft set theory with group theory through the symmetric difference...

(This article belongs to the Topic Fuzzy Sets Theory and Its Applications)
  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
2,754 Views
20 Pages

Makgeolli Structures and Its Application in BCK/BCI-Algebras

  • Sun Shin Ahn,
  • Seok-Zun Song,
  • Young Bae Jun and
  • Hee Sik Kim

25 August 2019

A fuzzy set is an extension of an existing set using fuzzy logic. Soft set theory is a generalization of fuzzy set theory. Fuzzy and soft set theory are good mathematical tools for dealing with uncertainty in a parametric manner. The aim of this arti...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Algebra and Discrete Mathematics)
  • Article
  • Open Access
18 Citations
3,191 Views
20 Pages

30 November 2018

Cubic sets are the very useful generalization of fuzzy sets where one is allowed to extend the output through a subinterval of [ 0 , 1 ] and a number from [ 0 , 1 ] . Generalized cubic sets generalized the cubic sets with the help of c...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Fuzziness and Mathematical Logic )
  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
2,520 Views
14 Pages

Soft Sets with Atoms

  • Andrei Alexandru and
  • Gabriel Ciobanu

7 June 2022

The theory of finitely supported structures is used for dealing with very large sets having a certain degree of symmetry. This framework generalizes the classical set theory of Zermelo-Fraenkel by allowing infinitely many basic elements with no inter...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue New Trends in Fuzzy Sets Theory and Their Extensions)
  • Article
  • Open Access
6 Citations
2,323 Views
24 Pages

Soft Expert Symmetric Group and Its Application in MCDM Problem

  • Shanmugam Kalaiselvan and
  • Srinivasan Vijayabalaji

19 December 2022

Researchers are always inspired to broaden their explorations towards uncertainty theories, owing to their great interest and importance. Soft set theory plays a primary role among all recent uncertainty tools. Though this theory sounds good in all a...

(This article belongs to the Section B: Mathematics)
  • Article
  • Open Access
22 Citations
2,286 Views
9 Pages

ES Structure Based on Soft J-Subset

  • Xi Chen,
  • Pooja Yadav,
  • Rashmi Singh and
  • Sardar M. N. Islam

7 February 2023

The ES structure described by soft subsets or soft M-subsets does not yield a lattice structure due to its restriction on parameter sets, and so cannot be used in information theory. This study proposes a new ES structure on soft sets that addresses...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Mathematical Methods for Decision Making and Optimization)
  • Article
  • Open Access
5 Citations
3,639 Views
12 Pages

Symmetric Matrices on Inverse Soft Expert Sets and Their Applications

  • Nandhagopal Sathiyaseelan,
  • Srinivasan Vijayabalaji and
  • José Carlos R. Alcantud

22 January 2023

The role of experts in decision-making is highly significant. The soft expert set (SES) is yet another milestone, as it plays a vital role in generalizing soft set theory. Soft expert set is creative and original because it involves more than one exp...

(This article belongs to the Section B: Mathematics)
  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
793 Views
25 Pages

5 October 2025

This paper provides a theoretical investigation of the OR-product (∨-product) in soft set theory, an operation of central importance for handling uncertainty in decision-making. A comprehensive algebraic analysis is carried out with respect to var...

(This article belongs to the Topic Fuzzy Sets Theory and Its Applications)
  • Article
  • Open Access
17 Citations
2,856 Views
18 Pages

Bipolar Intuitionistic Fuzzy Soft Ideals of BCK/BCI-Algebras and Its Applications in Decision-Making

  • Manivannan Balamurugan,
  • Nazek Alessa,
  • Karuppusamy Loganathan and
  • M. Sudheer Kumar

28 October 2023

In this paper, we merge the concepts of soft set theory and a bipolar intuitionistic fuzzy set. A bipolar intuitionistic fuzzy soft ideal in a BCK-algebra is defined as a soft set over the set of elements in the BCK-algebra, with each element associa...

(This article belongs to the Section D2: Operations Research and Fuzzy Decision Making)
  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
2,298 Views
14 Pages

Fermatean Vague Soft Set and Its Application in Decision Making

  • Abedallah Al-shboul,
  • Khaleed Alhazaymeh,
  • Kah Lun Wang and
  • Kok Bin Wong

26 November 2024

In this paper, we introduce the concept of Fermatean vague soft set and its operations, which are union, intersection, complement, subset, AND, and OR. An application of Fermatean vague soft set in decision-making according to the degree of preferenc...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Fuzzy Decision Making and Applications)
  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
1,892 Views
23 Pages

Int N-Soft Substructures of Semigroups

  • Muhammad Shabir,
  • Rimsha Mushtaq,
  • Muhammad Jawad,
  • Munazza Naz,
  • Fahd Jarad and
  • Thabet Abdeljawad

4 January 2023

The N-soft sets are newly defined structures with many applications in the real world. We aim for combining the semigroup theory and N-soft sets to provide a comprehensive account of the hybrid framework of N-soft Semigroups. In this paper, we define...

  • Article
  • Open Access
33 Citations
2,002 Views
14 Pages

22 September 2023

In this paper, we study soft sets of the first and second Baire categories. The soft sets of the first Baire category are examined to be small soft sets from the point of view of soft topology, while the soft sets of the second Baire category are exa...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Research on Fuzzy Logic and Mathematics with Applications II)
  • Article
  • Open Access
20 Citations
2,244 Views
12 Pages

The Relationship between Ordinary and Soft Algebras with an Application

  • Zanyar A. Ameen,
  • Tareq M. Al-shami,
  • Radwan Abu-Gdairi and
  • Abdelwaheb Mhemdi

25 April 2023

This work makes a contribution to the theory of soft sets. It studies the concepts of soft semi-algebras and soft algebras, along with some operations. Then, it examines the relations of soft algebras set to their ordinary (crisp) counterparts. Among...

  • Feature Paper
  • Article
  • Open Access
46 Citations
5,732 Views
19 Pages

Valuation Fuzzy Soft Sets: A Flexible Fuzzy Soft Set Based Decision Making Procedure for the Valuation of Assets

  • José Carlos R. Alcantud,
  • Salvador Cruz Rambaud and
  • María J. Muñoz Torrecillas

27 October 2017

Zadeh’s fuzzy set theory for imprecise or vague data has been followed by other successful models, inclusive of Molodtsov’s soft set theory and hybrid models like fuzzy soft sets. Their success has been backed up by applications to many branches like...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Fuzzy Techniques for Decision Making)
  • Article
  • Open Access
47 Citations
3,388 Views
13 Pages

Generating Soft Topologies via Soft Set Operators

  • A. A. Azzam,
  • Zanyar A. Ameen,
  • Tareq M. Al-shami and
  • Mohammed E. El-Shafei

29 April 2022

As daily problems involve a great deal of data and ambiguity, it has become vital to build new mathematical ways to cope with them, and soft set theory is the greatest tool for doing so. As a result, we study methods of generating soft topologies thr...

(This article belongs to the Topic Topology vs. Geometry in Data Analysis/Machine Learning)
  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
2,212 Views
29 Pages

Medical Diagnosis under Effective Bipolar-Valued Multi-Fuzzy Soft Settings

  • Hanan H. Sakr,
  • Salem A. Alyami and
  • Mohamed A. Abd Elgawad

31 August 2023

The Molodtsov-initiated soft set theory plays an important role as a powerful mathematical tool for handling uncertainty. As an extension of the soft set, the fuzzy soft set can be seen to be more generic and flexible than utilizing the soft set only...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Fuzzy Logic and Computational Intelligence)
  • Article
  • Open Access
101 Citations
5,072 Views
19 Pages

18 January 2019

Molodtsov originated soft set theory that was provided a general mathematical framework for handling with uncertainties in which we meet the data by affix parameterized factor during the information analysis as differentiated to fuzzy as well as neut...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue New types of Neutrosophic Set/Logic/Probability, Neutrosophic Over-/Under-/Off-Set, Neutrosophic Refined Set, and their Extension to Plithogenic Set/Logic/Probability, with Applications)
  • Article
  • Open Access
27 Citations
3,244 Views
21 Pages

16 March 2023

Artificial intelligence (AI) is a well-known and reliable technology that enables a machine to simulate human behavior. While the major theme of AI is to make a smart computer system that thinks like a human to solve awkward problems, machine learnin...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue AI Algorithm Design and Application)
  • Article
  • Open Access
56 Citations
5,053 Views
15 Pages

31 July 2020

Many effective tools in fuzzy soft set theory have been proposed to handle various complicated problems in different fields of our real life, especially in decision making. Molodtsov’s soft set theory has been regarded as a newly emerging mathematica...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Fuzzy Sets, Fuzzy Logic and Their Applications 2020)
  • Article
  • Open Access
21 Citations
4,420 Views
18 Pages

Intertemporal Choice of Fuzzy Soft Sets

  • José Carlos R. Alcantud and
  • María José Muñoz Torrecillas

1 September 2018

This paper first merges two noteworthy aspects of choice. On the one hand, soft sets and fuzzy soft sets are popular models that have been largely applied to decision making problems, such as real estate valuation, medical diagnosis (glaucoma, prosta...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Fuzzy Techniques for Decision Making 2018)
  • Article
  • Open Access
15 Citations
3,450 Views
20 Pages

Another Approach to Roughness of Soft Graphs with Applications in Decision Making

  • Nasir Shah,
  • Noor Rehman,
  • Muhammad Shabir and
  • Muhammad Irfan Ali

7 May 2018

Fuzzy sets, rough sets and soft sets are different tools for modeling problems involving uncertainty. Graph theory is another powerful tool for representing the information by means of diagrams, matrices or relations. A possible amalgamation of three...

  • Article
  • Open Access
20 Citations
3,088 Views
13 Pages

In recent years, the complex fuzzy set theory has intensified the attention of many researchers. This paper focuses on developing the algebraic structures pertaining to lattice ordered groups and lattice ordered subgroups for complex intuitionistic f...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Selected Papers from the 2nd International Conference on Mathematical Modeling and Computational Methods in Science and Engineering (ICMMCMSE-2020))
  • Article
  • Open Access
405 Views
19 Pages

27 August 2026

Soft set theory provides useful mathematical tools for handling uncertainties. However, to address simultaneous multi-parameter constraints, a more dynamic intersectional approach is necessary. In this study, we introduce the concept of a soft inters...

(This article belongs to the Section Algebra and Number Theory)
  • Article
  • Open Access
6 Citations
3,801 Views
37 Pages

Soft Rough Neutrosophic Influence Graphs with Application

  • Hafsa Masood Malik,
  • Muhammad Akram and
  • Florentin Smarandache

18 July 2018

In this paper, we apply the notion of soft rough neutrosophic sets to graph theory. We develop certain new concepts, including soft rough neutrosophic graphs, soft rough neutrosophic influence graphs, soft rough neutrosophic influence cycles and soft...

  • Article
  • Open Access
17 Citations
12,478 Views
22 Pages

25 October 2019

Microfinance institutions (MFIs) have attracted great attention, due to their significant role in poverty reduction. Given the features of MFIs, this paper proposes a novel hybrid model of soft set theory, and an improved order preference by similari...

(This article belongs to the Section Economic and Business Aspects of Sustainability)
  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
2,273 Views
19 Pages

18 February 2023

In this article, we have proposed a multi-attribute group decision making (MAGDM) with a new scenario or new condition named Chaotic MAGDM, in which not only the weights of the decision makers (DMs) and the weights of the decision attributes are cons...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Advances in Fuzzy Decision Theory and Applications)
  • Article
  • Open Access
7 Citations
3,131 Views
26 Pages

22 January 2023

In this article, the parameter of the decision maker’s familiarity with the attributes of the alternatives is introduced for the first time in dynamic multi-attribute group decision making to avoid the disadvantages arising from the inappropria...

  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
1,954 Views
19 Pages

Innovative Strategy for Constructing Soft Topology

  • Amlak I. Alajlan and
  • Ahmad M. Alghamdi

13 October 2023

To address the complexity of daily problems, soft set theory has emerged as a valuable tool, providing innovative mathematical techniques to manage vast amounts of data and ambiguity. The study of soft topology involves the investigation of various p...

(This article belongs to the Section Geometry and Topology)
  • Article
  • Open Access
18 Citations
6,102 Views
16 Pages

Graphs in an Intuitionistic Fuzzy Soft Environment

  • Sundas Shahzadi and
  • Muhammad Akram

23 March 2018

In this research article, we present a novel framework for handling intuitionistic fuzzy soft information by combining the theory of intuitionistic fuzzy soft sets with graphs. We introduce the notion of certain types of intuitionistic fuzzy soft gra...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue New Trends in Fuzzy Set Theory and Related Items)
  • Article
  • Open Access
23 Citations
4,429 Views
23 Pages

A New Group Decision-Making Technique under Picture Fuzzy Soft Expert Information

  • Fairouz Tchier,
  • Ghous Ali,
  • Muhammad Gulzar,
  • Dragan Pamučar and
  • Ganesh Ghorai

7 September 2021

As an extension of intuitionistic fuzzy sets, the theory of picture fuzzy sets not only deals with the degrees of rejection and acceptance but also considers the degree of refusal during a decision-making process; therefore, by incorporating this com...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Entropy for Machine Learning and Complex Systems Toward Regional Sustainable Development)
  • Article
  • Open Access
18 Citations
3,181 Views
11 Pages

Fixed Point Results in Soft Fuzzy Metric Spaces

  • Sonam,
  • Ramakant Bhardwaj and
  • Satyendra Narayan

20 July 2023

The primary objective of the paper is to present the Banach contraction theorem in soft fuzzy metric spaces while taking into consideration a restriction on the soft fuzzy metric between the soft points of the absolute soft set. A new altering distan...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue New Trends in Nonlinear Analysis)

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