Fuzzy AHP

smail Kayahan

Fuzzy Number Properties

Having two fuzzy sets A and B based on , then both are equal if their membership functions are equal, i.e. The height of a fuzzy set A is the largest membership grade obtained by any element in that set, i.e.

Membership Functions
A membership function for a fuzzy set A on the universe of discourse X is defined as A:X [0,1], where each element of X is mapped to a value between 0 and 1. This value, called membership value or degree of membership, quantifies the grade of membership of the element in X to the fuzzy set A.

Membership Functions
Triangular Function

Trapezoidal Function

Membership Functions
Normalised Gaussian Function

Difference of two sigmoidal functions

Generalised bell function

Membership Functions
Exponential-like Function

Membership Functions
S-shaped built-in membership

L-function

Fuzzy Ranking

Degree of Optimality
Rank a group of fuzzy sets by checking them against the greatest one of them. Most of these methods appear to be plain or inadequate. An element of a which is greater than an element of b receives the degree 1. Conversely, the value 0 and in case of equality, the value 0.5 have to be assigned. The computation, which does not have to include the part with the factor 0, is defined as follows.

-Cut
Determines the ranking by means of some cuts of the fuzzy sets to the degree . The only fuzzy ranking that includes a sufficiently great amount of -cuts is specified by S. Mabuchi*. In order to determine the degree to which the fuzzy set a is greater than b, the fuzzy set c must be generated by means of . The not yet normalized value for an -cut arises by using
*S. Mabuchi, An Approach to the Comparison of Fuzzy Subsets with an -Cut Dependent Index. IEEE Transactions on Systems, Man and Cybernetics, vol. 18(2), 1988, pp. 264272.

-Cut
Now the values of for the particular degrees of must be merged. But the regular formula is too complex so that in below an approximation is proposed. An accurate computation for trapezoids as fuzzy sets is indicated which, however, can be ignored. The reasons for it are that the calculation is very complicated and sufficiently precise values result from the approximation. The accuracy of the output is improved by increasing the value of the natural number N.

Hamming Distance

Proportion to Optimal