Fuzzy Soft Expert Set and Its Application

Shawkat Alkhazaleh, Abdul Razak Salleh

Department of Mathematics, Faculty of Science and Art, Shaqra University, Shaqraa, KSA.
School of Mathematical Sciences, Faculty of Science and Technology, Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia, Bangi, Malaysia.

DOI: 10.4236/am.2014.59127                

Abstract

In 1999, Molodtsov introduced the concept of soft set theory as a general mathematical tool for dealing with uncertainty. Alkhazaleh and Salleh (2011) define the concept of soft expert sets where the user can know the opinion of all experts in one model and give an application of this concept in decision making problem. So in this paper, we generalize the concept of a soft expert set to fuzzy soft expert set, which will be more effective and useful. We also define its basic operations, namely complement, union, intersection, AND and OR. We give an application of this concept in decision making problem. Finally, we study a mapping on fuzzy soft expert classes and its properties.

Keywords

Soft Set, Soft Expert Set, Fuzzy Soft Expert Set

Conflicts of Interest

The authors declare no conflicts of interest.

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