key: cord-0865317-unkjoln4
authors: Xue, Yige; Deng, Yong
title: Decision making under measure-based granular uncertainty with intuitionistic fuzzy sets
date: 2021-02-05
journal: Appl Intell
DOI: 10.1007/s10489-021-02216-6
sha: d49e020b56ff9a3cc165f878c92938c927872179
doc_id: 865317
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Yager has proposed the decision making under measure-based granular uncertainty, which can make decision with the aid of Choquet integral, measure and representative payoffs. The decision making under measure-based granular uncertainty is an effective tool to deal with uncertain issues. The intuitionistic fuzzy environment is the more real environment. Since the decision making under measure-based granular uncertainty is not based on intuitionistic fuzzy environment, it cannot effectively solve the decision issues in the intuitionistic fuzzy environment. Then, when the issues of decision making are under intuitionistic fuzzy environment, what is the decision making under measure-based granular uncertainty with intuitionistic fuzzy sets is still an open issue. To deal with this kind of issues, this paper proposes the decision making under measure-based granular uncertainty with intuitionistic fuzzy sets. The decision making under measure-based granular uncertainty with intuitionistic fuzzy sets can effectively solve the decision making issues in the intuitionistic fuzzy environment, in other words, it can extend the decision making under measure-based granular uncertainty to the intuitionistic fuzzy environment. Numerical examples are applied to verify the validity of the decision making under measure-based granular uncertainty with intuitionistic fuzzy sets. The experimental results demonstrate that the decision making under measure-based granular uncertainty with intuitionistic fuzzy sets can represent the objects successfully and make decision effectively. In addition, a practical application of applied intelligence is used to compare the performance between the proposed model and the decision making under measure-based granular uncertainty. The experimental results show that the proposed model can solve some decision problems that the decision making under measure-based granular uncertainty cannot solve.

entropy. Fujita et al. [5] proposed a temporal-spatial composite sequential approach under granular computing environment. Athira et al. [6] proposed a new entropy model with the aid of Pythagorean fuzzy soft sets. Mohd et al. [7] extended the application scope of Pythagorean fuzzy sets into the green supplier development field. Jiang et al. [8] proposed a novel network model, which can combine bayesian network with Z-number.

Among these algorithms and theories, the intuitionistic fuzzy sets is an extent of fuzzy sets, which consist of intuitionistic fuzzy numbers [9, 10] . It means that intuitionistic fuzzy sets is made up of membership degree, nonmembership degree and hesitancy degree, which is more flexible than fuzzy sets in representing the uncertainties. When it is not sure whether the value belongs to membership degree or non-membership degree, it is considered hesitancy degree, which gives more scope to represent the uncertainty. Relying on the advantages on indicating vague information, the intuitionistic fuzzy sets has been applied on many fields widely by scholars at home and abroad [11] . Wang et al. [12] proposed an new reasoning method, which is based on the intuitionistic fuzzy sets. Garg and Rani [13] found not only an new ranking method but also some novel aggregation operators under complex intuitionistic fuzzy environment. Zhou and Xu [14] analyzed the envelopment, fused preference and improved the membership of intuitionistic fuzzy sets. Alcantud et al. [15] proposed a new method to aggregate of infinite chains of intuitionistic fuzzy sets. Ngan et al. [16] applied the quaternion numbers to indicate complex intuitionistic fuzzy sets. Among all the applications of intuitionisitic fuzzy sets, the most representative one is the application of intuitionisitic fuzzy sets in decision making. Song et al. [17] improve the intuitionistic fuzzy sets with the aid of divergence-based cross entropy to address the issues of decision making. Son et al. [18] proposed a new representation of intuitionistic fuzzy sets and applied it to solve critical decision making. Garg and Singh [19] applied the similarity measurement theory and intuitionistic fuzzy sets to solve decision making problems. Meng et al. [20] introduced the linguistic intuitionistic fuzzy preference relations and applied it to address the multi-criteria decision making issues. Zhou and Xu [21] extended the intuitionistic fuzzy sets and applied it to deal with issues of decision making with risk preference.

When the space of uncertain variables is large, how to express uncertain variables is a very time-consuming and laborious problem. When uncertain variables are evaluated in large space, we can simplify the knowledge acquisition process by using space granulation. This process of simplifying knowledge acquisition is also very beneficial for decision-making. Then, using granulation to simplify knowledge acquisition can introduce inaccuracies into the relevant decision making process. Recently, Yager proposed the decision making under measure-based granular uncertainty [22] , which has promising aspects. The decision making under measure-based granular uncertainty is a very flexible and efficient way to make decision, which represents uncertain information in the granulation of space, and potential uncertainty is generally expressed as measure. In this way, the space of the issues of decision making and granulation of this space need be determined. Then the measure corresponding to the granulation is given. Hence, analyze the actual problem and give the payoffs of each candidate solution. Then the payoff bags of the issue according to payoffs and granulation will be calculated. Hence, the corresponding representative payoff from each payoff bag will be obtained, and then obtain a representative of each alternative. Based on the representative payoff of each alternative, the final decision result is obtained. The decision making under measure-based granular uncertainty can not only simplify the decision-making process, but also effectively hold uncertain information. Although the decision making under measure-based granular uncertainty is a very efficient decision-making method based on unknown information, it cannot deal with the decision problem based on intuitionistic fuzzy environment. As the intuitionistic fuzzy environment is more general, there is an urgent need to put forward the decision making under measure-based uncertainty with intuitionistic fuzzy sets. However, what is the decision making under measure-based granular uncertainty with intuitionistic fuzzy sets is still an open issue to be addressed.

This paper proposes the decision making under measurebased granular uncertainty with intuitionistic fuzzy sets, which can apply the decision making under measurebased granular uncertainty to solve the problems under intuitionistic fuzzy environment, with the aid of Choquet integral, representative payoffs and measure. The flow of the decision making under measure-based granular uncertainty with intuitionistic fuzzy sets in this article requires the decision makers to determine how many candidate alternatives there are and the space . The granulation of the space should be determined. Moreover, relying on the actual problem, the payoffs of each alternative are given. The corresponding intuitionistic fuzzy sets of pasyoffs are also obtained. Membership degrees and non-membership degrees in intuitionistic fuzzy sets are integrated to obtain the integrated value. Then, the measure corresponding to the granulation will be obtained. The payoff bags of the problem based on the integrated value and granulation will be calculated. Hence, the corresponding representative payoff for each payoff bag can be obtained. According to the representative payoff of each payoff bag, get the representative payoff of each alternative. Based on the representative payoff of each alternative, the final decision result is obtained. In order to extend decision making under measure-based granular uncertainty with intuitionistic fuzzy sets to intuitionistic fuzzy environment, this model uses intuitionistic fuzzy set to represent payoffs of alternatives. If the intuitionistic fuzzy set is not used to express the payoffs of the alternatives, then decision making under measure-based granular uncertainty with intuitionistic fuzzy sets will degenerate into the decision making under measure-based granular uncertainty. Obviously, from the previous discussion, we know that the proposed model in this paper can be applied to the intuitionistic fuzzy environment, but the decision making under measure-based granular uncertainty cannot. This is the key difference between the model in this paper and his method is that the proposed model in this paper extends the decision making under measure-based granular uncertainty to the intuitionistic fuzzy environment, which is also the advantage of the proposed model in this paper. It means that the proposed model can handle the situation what the decision making under measure-based granular uncertainty can not.

The rest of the paper is structured as follows. Section 2 introduces the preliminary. Section 3 presents the decision making under measure-based granular uncertainty with intuitionistic fuzzy sets. Section 4 illustrates the flexibility and accuracy of the decision making under measure-based granular uncertainty with intuitionistic fuzzy sets. Section 5 summarizes the whole paper.

Nowadays, there are a lot of uncertain issues [23] [24] [25] [26] . The real world is very complicated [27] [28] [29] . The unknown is everywhere, just like no one knows why there will be an outbreak of COVID-19 in early 2020, no one knows when the next earthquake will come, no one knows when the next tsunami will come. To deal with these issues, many models and theories has been proposed and plenty of problems has been solved, such as decision making [30] , resilience analysis [31] , probability transform [32] , pattern classification [33] .

In this section, representative payoffs [22] , intuitionistic fuzzy sets [34] , measure [35] are briefly introduced.

Given a space X, the definition of measure is defined as follows:

Definition 1 (Measure) [36] Assume μ on X is a mapping μ: X → [0, 1] and satisfies the follow conditions:

Where, A and B are subsets of X. Hence, μ is a measure. The fuzzy measure is an effective tool to represent uncertainties, which can be combined with many other algorithms and models.

There are many models to deal with uncertain information [37] . Intuitionistic fuzzy sets is an efficiency tool to represent uncertainty [38, 39] . Assume = {z 1 , z 2 , . . . , z n } is a frame of discernment and the power set of is 2 =

The definition of an intuitionistic fuzzy set on is as follows:

Where, μ B (z i ) and ν B (z i ) : 2 → [0, 1] are membership degree and non-membership degree respectively, for any element of 2 , B.

Intuitionistic fuzzy sets is the most famous extension of fuzzy sets. It is an expression of the real world [40] . So far, the research on this model has been very popular and mainstream at home and abroad [41] .

If A is an orthopair fuzzy set [42] and q is the minimal value such that all [43] has proposed the following approach to obtain a possible membership grade of standard fuzzy subsets:

Given a space X with granular sets F . Meanwhile, λ is a measure based on F . The definition of an representative payoffs of alternative A k is as follows:

Rep

Where, B kj = b kj r for r = 1 to n j with each b kj r = a ki for x i ∈ F j . n j is the number of payoffs in B kj .

We use ordered weighted averaging operator to obtain Rep(A k ) by integrating Rep(B kj ) for j = 1 to q. So in fact, other ordered weighted averaging methods clustering operator can be used to replace the Choquet integral in this definition.

Given a space X with granular sets F . λ is a measure based on F . Alternatives A k be represented as A k = { a kr , μ(a kr ), ν(a kr ) , r = 1 to n k }. The definition of an representative payoffs of alternative A k is as follows: Definition 4 (Decision making under measure-based granular uncertainty with intuitionistic fuzzy sets)

Where, B kj = b kj r for r = 1 to n j with each b kj r is the grade of a ki for x i ∈ F j obtained by (5) . n j is the number of payoffs in B kj .

With ρ is an index function such that ρ(i) is the index of granular set with the ith largest value for Rep(B kj ), then

Where (2) , . . . , F ρ(i) }, the collection of the i granular sets with the ith largest values for Rep (B kρ(i) ).

In particular, the representative value of B kj can be represented as follows:

Rep

Theorem 1 Assume λ is a probability measure such that

Proof Since λ is a probability measure, for any subset

Relying on the equations of (8), we have equations as follows:

Hence, we obtain

Proof Since λ is a cardinality-based measure, so, for any

Relying on the equations of (8), we have equations as follows:

Hence, we obtain

Relying on the equations of (8), we have equations as follows:

Hence, we obtain

The flow of decision making under measure-based granular uncertainty with intuitionistic fuzzy sets can be shown as Fig. 1 .

Based on the Fig. 1 , the steps of the proposed model in this paper are as follows: step 1 Determine how many candidate alternatives there are and the space. step 2 The granulation of the space should be determined. step 3 Relying on the actual problem, the possible payoffs of each alternative are given. step 4 Obtaining the corresponding intuitionistic fuzzy sets of possible payoffs. The decision making under measure-based granular uncertainty with intuitionistic fuzzy sets converts possible payoffs of the alternatives in issues into the form of intuitionistic fuzzy sets, which is a very flexible model. That is to say, the decision making under measure-based granular uncertainty with intuitionistic fuzzy sets extends decision making under measure-based granular uncertainty to the intuitionistic fuzzy environment, which is both a generalization and an innovation of decision making under measure-based granular uncertainty with intuitionistic fuzzy sets. Since the intuitionistic fuzzy environment represented by the intuitionistic fuzzy set is an environment more close to the real world, the decision making under measure-based granular uncertainty with intuitionistic fuzzy sets is more widely applied than decision making under measure-based granular uncertainty. If the intuitionistic fuzzy set is not used to express the payoffs of the alternatives, then decision making under measure-based granular uncertainty with intuitionistic fuzzy sets will degenerate into the decision making under measure-based granular uncertainty. The granulation of X, F = {F 1 , F 2 , F 3 }, is as follows:

The measure on F , λ, is as follows:

The payoffs bags are as follows: The granulation of X, F = {F 1 , F 2 , F 3 }, is as follows:

The measure on F , λ, is as follows:

The payoffs bags are as follows: 

In order to compare the advantages and disadvantages of decision making under measure-based granular uncertainty with intuitionistic fuzzy sets with decision making under measure-based granular uncertainty, the following practical application of applied intelligence is given in this paper. Since the beginning of 2020, COVID-19 has been ravaging the human earth, and human life has been severely affected. In order to treat COVID-19, suppose that two drugs have been developed, and each drug is scored by four experts. The scoring of four experts constitutes the space for this question. We are now evaluating both drugs using decision making under measure-based granular uncertainty with intuitionistic fuzzy sets and decision making under measure-based granular uncertainty, respectively. First, we evaluated the two drugs using the decision making under measure-based granular uncertainty, and the evaluation process is as follows:

According to the previous explanation, A 1 The granulation of X, F = {F 1 , F 2 , F 3 }, is as follows:

The measure on F , λ, is as follows:

The payoffs bags are as follows: Hence, calculate Rep(A 1 ) and Rep(A 2 ) as follows:

Then, we evaluated the two drugs using the decision making under measure-based granular uncertainty with intuitionistic fuzzy sets, and the evaluation process is as follows:

According to the previous explanation, we know that A 1 and A 2 are two drug with a space X = {x 1 , x 2 , x 3 , x 4 }. The possible payoffs of two drugs A 1 and A 2 are as follows: The related intuitionistic fuzzy sets under two alternatives are as follows: { a 11 , 0.2, 0.3 , a 12 , 0.3, 0.4 , a 13 , 0.6, 0.1 ,  a 14 The granulation of X, F = {F 1 , F 2 , F 3 }, is as follows:

The measure on F , λ, is as follows:

The payoffs bags are as follows: Since Rep(A 2 )>Rep(A 1 ), the A 2 is a better drug than A 1 . Above all, we can see that the experimental result obtained by the decision making under measure-based granular uncertainty with intuitionistic fuzzy sets is different from that obtained by the decision making under measure-based granular uncertainty. At the same time, the decision making under measure-based granular uncertainty with intuitionistic fuzzy sets can accurately predict the second drug than the first one is more suitable for treatment of COVID-19, which is consistent with the effect predicted by experts. This not only indicates that the decision making under measurebased granular uncertainty with intuitionistic fuzzy sets is an extension of the decision making under measure-based granular uncertainty in the intuitionistic fuzzy environment, but also indicates that the decision making under measurebased granular uncertainty with intuitionistic fuzzy sets is more effective than the decision making under measurebased granular uncertainty in dealing with issues of decision making.

In real world, there are many uncertainties [44, 45] . Meanwhile, many scholars proposed a lot of effective methods and theories to address these problems [46, 47] . The intuitionistic fuzzy sets is an extent of classical fuzzy sets [48, 49] . Intuitionistic fuzzy set is an effective means to reflect the real world [50] . It divides the information contained in an unknown event into membership degree, nonmembership degree and hesitation degree, which are also the original representation methods of the real world [51] . For example, if a person has a cough or fever, the doctor will determine whether the person has COVID-19 or not. At this point, the membership degree is the probability that the person will get COVID-19. Non-membership degree is the probability that the person does not have COVID-19. Hesitancy degree is the probability that the doctor can't tell if the person has COVID-19. Yager proposed the decision making under measure-based granular uncertainty [22] , which has promising aspects [52] . However, the decision making under measure-based granular uncertainty can not hold the decision making issues under intuitionistic fuzzy environment. This paper proposes the decision making under measure-based granular uncertainty with intuitionistic fuzzy sets, which is an extent of the decision making under measure-based granular uncertainty under the intuitionistic fuzzy environment. The proposed model is based on the intuitionistic fuzzy sets, which is an effective tool to represent uncertainties. On the other hand, if a system is under intuitionistic fuzzy environment, then the proposed model can deal with these issues of this system. The proposed model process in this article requires the decision maker to determine how many alternatives there are and the granulation of space. Then, the practical problems are analyzed and the payoffs of each alternative are given. Based on the payoffs, the corresponding intuitionistic fuzzy sets are also obtained. The integrated values are obtained by integrating the membership degrees and non-membership degrees of these intuitionistic fuzzy sets. Relying on the granulation, the measure corresponding to granulation is given. Then, the payoff bags are obtained based on these integrated values and granulation of space. Representative payoffs for these payoff bags can be obtained. Hence, based on the representation payoffs, the representative payoffs of these alternatives respectively are obtained. Finally, the final decision making result is obtained according to the representative payoffs of these alternatives. We can notice that the fundamental difference between the proposed model in this paper and the decision making under measure-based granular uncertainty is that the proposed model in this paper will convert the possible payoffs of each candidate into the corresponding intuitionistic fuzzy set, and integrate the membership degrees and non-membership degrees of the intuitionistic fuzzy sets by relevant methods. The integrated values will be aggregated by OWA operator, such as Choquet integral. In fact, Choquet integrals can be replaced by other OWA operators. This shows that the model in this paper can adapt to the real world, because the intuitionistic fuzzy sets can perfectly reflect the unknown information in the real world. So extending the decision making under measure-based granular uncertainty to an intuitionistic fuzzy environment also means that the proposed model in this paper is more flexible than the decision making under measure-based granular uncertainty. Numerical examples are applied to verify the validity of the decision making under measure-based granular uncertainty with intuitionistic fuzzy sets. The experimental results demonstrate that the decision making under measure-based granular uncertainty with intuitionistic fuzzy sets can represent the objects successfully and make decision effectively. In addition, a practical application of applied intelligence is used to compare the performance between the proposed model and the decision making under measure-based granular uncertainty. The experimental results show that the proposed model can solve some decision problems that the decision making under measure-based granular uncertainty cannot solve. In the future, we will extend the application of the proposed model to more wide scope, such as Pythagorean fuzzy environment, orthopair fuzzy environment.

This paper proposes the decision making under measurebased granular uncertainty with intuitionistic fuzzy sets, which can handle the issues under intuitionistic fuzzy environment. It means that the proposed model is an extend of the decision making under measure-based granular uncertainty. When the environment of the proposed model degenerate into the normal environment, the proposed model will degenerate into the decision making under measure-based granular uncertainty. The proposed model can represent the alternatives as possible payoffs. Then, the related intuitionistic fuzzy sets of possible payoffs can be obtained. The integrated values are obtained by integrating the membership degrees and non-membership degrees of these intuitionistic fuzzy sets. Then, the granulation of space should be given. Then, the payoff bags are obtained based on these integrated values and granulation of space. Representative payoffs for these payoff bags can be obtained. Hence, based on the representation payoffs, the representative payoffs of these alternatives respectively are obtained. Finally, the final decision making result is obtained according to the representative payoffs of these alternatives. This proposed model can combine the advantages of the decision making under measurebased granular uncertainty and intuitionistic fuzzy sets and make an accurate estimation of the alternatives. Numerical examples are applied to verify the validity of the decision making under measure-based granular uncertainty with intuitionistic fuzzy sets. The experimental results demonstrate that the decision making under measurebased granular uncertainty with intuitionistic fuzzy sets can represent the objects successfully and make decision effectively. In addition, a practical application of applied intelligence is used to compare the performance between the proposed model and the decision making under measurebased granular uncertainty. The experimental results show that the proposed model can solve some decision problems that the decision making under measure-based granular uncertainty cannot solve.

Funding The work is partially supported by National Natural Science Foundation of China (Grant No. 61973332).

Ethics approval and consent to participate This article does not contain any studies with human participants or animals performed by any of the authors.

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All the authors certify that there is no conflict of interest with any individual or organization for the present work.Publisher's note Springer Nature remains neutral with regard to jurisdictional claims in published maps and institutional affiliations. Professor Deng has published more than 100 papers in referred journals. His research interests include uncertainty, evidence theory, and complex system modelling. He presents generalized evidence theory, D numbers, Deng entropy and information volume of mass function. He served as the PC member of many conference such as International Conference on Belief Functions. He served as many editorial board members such aseditorial board member of Entropy,