Cubic Vague Set and its Application in Decision Making

• Main Authors: Khaleed Alhazaymeh, Yousef Al-Qudah, Nasruddin Hassan, Abdul Muhaimin Nasruddin
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Published: MDPI AG 2020-08-01
• Series: Entropy
• Subjects: cubic set; external cubic; fuzzy set; internal cubic; interval-valued; periodic
• Online Access: https://www.mdpi.com/1099-4300/22/9/963

From the hybrid nature of cubic sets, we develop a new generalized hybrid structure of cubic sets known as cubic vague sets (CVSs). We also define the concept of internal cubic vague sets (ICVSs) and external cubic vague sets (ECVSs) with examples and discuss their interesting properties, including ICVSs and ECVSs under both P and R-Order. Moreover, we prove that the R and R-intersection of ICVSs (or ECVSs) need not be an ICVS (or ECVS). We also derive the different conditions for P-union (P-intersection, R and R-intersection) operations of both ICVSs (ECVSs) to become an ICVS (ECVS). Finally, we introduce a decision-making based on the proposed similarity measure of the CVSs domain and a numerical example is given to elucidate that the proposed similarity measure of CVSs is an important concept for measuring entropy in the information/data. It will be shown that the cubic vague set has the novelty to accurately represent and model two-dimensional information for real-life phenomena that are periodic in nature.