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An approach to decision making based on intuitionistic fuzzy rough sets over two universes

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Rough set theory has been combined with intuitionistic fuzzy sets in dealing with uncertainty decision making. This paper proposes a general decision-making framework based on the intuitionistic fuzzy rough set model over two universes. We first present the intuitionistic fuzzy rough set model over two universes with a constructive approach and discuss the basic properties of this model. We then give a new approach of decision making in uncertainty environment by using the intuitionistic fuzzy rough sets over two universes. Further, the principal steps of the decision method established in this paper are presented in detail. Finally, an example of handling medical diagnosis problem illustrates this approach.

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The work was partly supported by the National Science Foundation of China (71161016, 71071113), a Foundation for the Author of National Excellent Doctoral Dissertation of PR China (200782), the Shuguang Plan of Shanghai Education Development Foundation and Shanghai Education Committee (08SG21), Shanghai Pujiang Program, and Shanghai Philosophical and Social Science Program (2010BZH003), the Fundamental Research Funds for the Central Universities.

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  2. Lanzhou Jiaotong University, Lanzhou, China

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Sun, B., Ma, W. & Liu, Q. An approach to decision making based on intuitionistic fuzzy rough sets over two universes. J Oper Res Soc 64, 1079–1089 (2013). https://doi.org/10.1057/jors.2012.75

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