TY - EJOU AU - blowi, S. A. Al AU - Sayed, M. El AU - Safty, M. A. El TI - Decision Making Based on Fuzzy Soft Sets and Its Application in COVID-19 T2 - Intelligent Automation \& Soft Computing PY - 2021 VL - 30 IS - 3 SN - 2326-005X AB - Real-world applications are now dealing with a huge amount of data, especially in the area of high-dimensional features. Trait reduction is one of the major steps in decision making problems. It refers to the determination of a minimum subset of attributes which preserves the final decision based on the entire set of attributes. Unfortunately, most of the current features are irrelevant or redundant, which makes these systems unreliable and imprecise. This paper proposes a new paradigm based on fuzzy soft relationship and level fuzzy soft relationship, called Union - Intersection decision making method. Using these new principles, the decision-making strategy is structured to choose a fuzzy set of optimal elements from the alternatives on the basis of a fuzzy soft set. Finally, we used our proposed method in medical application to make the decision to diagnose COVID-19. Moreover, we used MATLAB programming to obtain the results; this has coincided with the announcement by the World Health Organization and an accurate proposal was examined, which competes with that of the method of Zhao. KW - COVID-19; fuzzy set; rough set; rule generation; intelligence discovery; decision making DO - 10.32604/iasc.2021.018242