Ranking type-2 fuzzy numbers

  • Authors:
  • H. B. Mitchell

  • Affiliations:
  • ELTA Syst. Ltd, Ashdod

  • Venue:
  • IEEE Transactions on Fuzzy Systems
  • Year:
  • 2006

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Abstract

Type-2 fuzzy sets are a generalization of the ordinary fuzzy sets in which each type-2 fuzzy set is characterized by a fuzzy membership function. In this paper, we consider the problem of ranking a set of type-2 fuzzy numbers. We adopt a statistical viewpoint and interpret each type-2 fuzzy number as an ensemble of ordinary fuzzy numbers. This enables us to define a type-2 fuzzy rank and a type-2 rank uncertainty for each intuitionistic fuzzy number. We show the reasonableness of the results obtained by examining several test cases