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The intuitionistic fuzzy sets are a generalization of fuzzy sets with an additional degree of freedom, as compared to fuzzy sets, which are fully described by the degree of membership. In the definition of an intuitionistic fuzzy set a degree of non-membership is added, and the value of membership plus the value of nonmembership for an element does not necessarily make one. Some psychological experiments demonstrate that in many judgments of human beings such a phenomenon happens. The additional degree of freedom means inherent possibility to model and process more adequately and more human consistently the imprecise information, and makes the intuitionistic fuzzy sets a useful tool in decision making.
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Szmidt, E. (2014). Summary and Conclusions. In: Distances and Similarities in Intuitionistic Fuzzy Sets. Studies in Fuzziness and Soft Computing, vol 307. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-01640-5_5
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