Maintenance strategy selection: a comprehensive review of current paradigms and solution approaches

A Patil, G Soni, A Prakash, K Karwasra - International Journal of …, 2022 - emerald.com
Purpose In today's competitive industries, the selection of best suitable maintenance
strategy is dependent on large number of quantitative and qualitative factors, and it becomes …

Determine the number of unknown targets in open world based on elbow method

F Liu, Y Deng - IEEE Transactions on Fuzzy Systems, 2020 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Generalized evidence theory as an extension of Dempster-Shafer evidence theory can deal
with uncertain information fusion in the open world. However, one of the open issues is to …

Divergence measure of Pythagorean fuzzy sets and its application in medical diagnosis

F **ao, W Ding - Applied Soft Computing, 2019 - Elsevier
The Pythagorean fuzzy set (PFS) which is an extension of intuitionistic fuzzy set, is more
capable of expressing and handling the uncertainty under uncertain environments, so that it …

Generalization of Dempster–Shafer theory: A complex mass function

F **ao - Applied Intelligence, 2020 - Springer
Dempster–Shafer evidence theory has been widely used in various fields of applications,
because of the flexibility and effectiveness in modeling uncertainties without prior …

A new complex evidence theory

L Pan, Y Deng - Information Sciences, 2022 - Elsevier
Dempster-Shafer evidence theory is widely used in the field of information fusion since it
satisfies weaker conditions than probability theory. Nevertheless, the description space of …

CED: A distance for complex mass functions

F **ao - IEEE transactions on neural networks and learning …, 2020 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Evidence theory is an effective methodology for modeling and processing uncertainty that
has been widely applied in various fields. In evidence theory, a number of distance …

A Multiple-Criteria Decision-Making Method Based on D Numbers and Belief Entropy

F **ao - International Journal of Fuzzy Systems, 2019 - Springer
Multiple-criteria decision-making (MCDM) is an important branch of operations research
which judges multiple criteria under decision-making environments. In the process of …

GIQ: a generalized intelligent quality-based approach for fusing multisource information

F **ao - IEEE Transactions on Fuzzy Systems, 2020 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
In this article, we propose a generalized intelligent quality-based approach for fusing
multisource information. The goal of the proposed approach is to fuse the multicomplex …

On the maximum entropy negation of a complex-valued distribution

F **ao - IEEE Transactions on Fuzzy Systems, 2020 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
In real applications of artificial and intelligent decision-making systems, how to represent the
knowledge involved with uncertain information is still an open issue. The negation method …