Salman A. Khan^1,*, Mohamed Mohandes^2,3, Shafiqur Rehman³, Ali Al-Shaikhi^2,4, Kashif Iqbal¹

CMC-Computers, Materials & Continua, Vol.84, No.1, pp. 553-581, 2025, DOI:10.32604/cmc.2025.064560 - 09 June 2025

Abstract Wind energy has emerged as a potential replacement for fossil fuel-based energy sources. To harness maximum wind energy, a crucial decision in the development of an efficient wind farm is the optimal layout design. This layout defines the specific locations of the turbines within the wind farm. The process of finding the optimal locations of turbines, in the presence of various technical and technological constraints, makes the wind farm layout design problem a complex optimization problem. This problem has traditionally been solved with nature-inspired algorithms with promising results. The performance and convergence of nature-inspired algorithms… More >

Anastasios Dounis^*, Ioannis Palaiothodoros, Anna Panagiotou

CMES-Computer Modeling in Engineering & Sciences, Vol.142, No.1, pp. 759-811, 2025, DOI:10.32604/cmes.2024.057888 - 17 December 2024

Abstract Accurate medical diagnosis, which involves identifying diseases based on patient symptoms, is often hindered by uncertainties in data interpretation and retrieval. Advanced fuzzy set theories have emerged as effective tools to address these challenges. In this paper, new mathematical approaches for handling uncertainty in medical diagnosis are introduced using q-rung orthopair fuzzy sets (q-ROFS) and interval-valued q-rung orthopair fuzzy sets (IVq-ROFS). Three aggregation operators are proposed in our methodologies: the q-ROF weighted averaging (q-ROFWA), the q-ROF weighted geometric (q-ROFWG), and the q-ROF weighted neutrality averaging (q-ROFWNA), which enhance decision-making under uncertainty. These operators are paired More > Graphic Abstract

Khuram Ali Khan¹, Saba Mubeen Ishfaq¹, Atiqe Ur Rahman², Salwa El-Morsy^3,*

CMES-Computer Modeling in Engineering & Sciences, Vol.142, No.1, pp. 501-530, 2025, DOI:10.32604/cmes.2024.057865 - 17 December 2024

Abstract Due to the numerous variables to take into account as well as the inherent ambiguity and uncertainty, evaluating educational institutions can be difficult. The concept of a possibility Pythagorean fuzzy hypersoft set (pPyFHSS) is more flexible in this regard than other theoretical fuzzy set-like models, even though some attempts have been made in the literature to address such uncertainties. This study investigates the elementary notions of pPyFHSS including its set-theoretic operations union, intersection, complement, OR- and AND-operations. Some results related to these operations are also modified for pPyFHSS. Additionally, the similarity measures between pPyFHSSs are More >

Mohammed M. Ali Al-Shamiri^1,2, Ghous Ali^3,*, Muhammad Zain Ul Abidin³, Arooj Adeel³

CMES-Computer Modeling in Engineering & Sciences, Vol.137, No.2, pp. 1891-1936, 2023, DOI:10.32604/cmes.2023.027844 - 26 June 2023

Abstract Spherical fuzzy soft expert set (SFSES) theory blends the perks of spherical fuzzy sets and group decision-making into a unified approach. It allows solutions to highly complicated uncertainties and ambiguities under the unbiased supervision and group decision-making of multiple experts. However, SFSES theory has some deficiencies such as the inability to interpret and portray the bipolarity of decision-parameters. This work highlights and overcomes these limitations by introducing the novel spherical fuzzy bipolar soft expert sets (SFBSESs) as a powerful hybridization of spherical fuzzy set theory with bipolar soft expert sets (BSESs). Followed by the development More > Graphic Abstract

Peichen Zhao¹, Qi Yue^2,*, Zhibin Deng³

Intelligent Automation & Soft Computing, Vol.37, No.1, pp. 849-873, 2023, DOI:10.32604/iasc.2023.037090 - 29 April 2023

Abstract In previous research on two-sided matching (TSM) decision, agents’ preferences were often given in the form of exact values of ordinal numbers and linguistic phrase term sets. Nowdays, the matching agent cannot perform the exact evaluation in the TSM situations due to the great fuzziness of human thought and the complexity of reality. Probability hesitant fuzzy sets, however, have grown in popularity due to their advantages in communicating complex information. Therefore, this paper develops a TSM decision-making approach with multi-attribute probability hesitant fuzzy sets and unknown attribute weight information. The agent attribute weight vector should… More >

Lei Gu^*, Furong Zhang, Li Ma

CMC-Computers, Materials & Continua, Vol.75, No.3, pp. 5911-5928, 2023, DOI:10.32604/cmc.2023.038127 - 29 April 2023

Abstract Learning unlabeled data is a significant challenge that needs to handle complicated relationships between nominal values and attributes. Increasingly, recent research on learning value relations within and between attributes has shown significant improvement in clustering and outlier detection, etc. However, typical existing work relies on learning pairwise value relations but weakens or overlooks the direct couplings between multiple attributes. This paper thus proposes two novel and flexible multi-attribute couplings-based distance (MCD) metrics, which learn the multi-attribute couplings and their strengths in nominal data based on information theories: self-information, entropy, and mutual information, for measuring both More >

Chuan-Yang Ruan^1,2, Xiang-Jing Chen¹, Li-Na Han^3,*

CMC-Computers, Materials & Continua, Vol.75, No.2, pp. 3203-3222, 2023, DOI:10.32604/cmc.2023.035480 - 31 March 2023

Abstract In real life, incomplete information, inaccurate data, and the preferences of decision-makers during qualitative judgment would impact the process of decision-making. As a technical instrument that can successfully handle uncertain information, Fermatean fuzzy sets have recently been used to solve the multi-attribute decision-making (MADM) problems. This paper proposes a Fermatean hesitant fuzzy information aggregation method to address the problem of fusion where the membership, non-membership, and priority are considered simultaneously. Combining the Fermatean hesitant fuzzy sets with Heronian Mean operators, this paper proposes the Fermatean hesitant fuzzy Heronian mean (FHFHM) operator and the Fermatean hesitant… More >

Runze Liu, Liguo Fei^*, Jianing Mi

CMES-Computer Modeling in Engineering & Sciences, Vol.136, No.2, pp. 2039-2067, 2023, DOI:10.32604/cmes.2023.024927 - 06 February 2023

Abstract Probabilistic linguistic term sets (PLTSs) are an effective tool for expressing subjective human cognition that offer advantages in the field of multi-attribute decision-making (MADM). However, studies have found that PLTSs have lost their ability to accurately capture the views of decision-makers (DMs) in certain circumstances, such as when the DM hesitates between multiple linguistic terms or the decision information is incomplete, thus affecting their role in the decision-making process. Belief function theory is a leading stream of thought in uncertainty processing that is suitable for dealing with the limitations of PLTS. Therefore, the purpose of… More > Graphic Abstract

Shujuan Tian^1,2,3, Wenjian Ding^1,2,3, Gang Liu⁴, Yuxia Sun⁵, Saiqin Long⁵, Jiang Zhu^1,2,3,*

CMC-Computers, Materials & Continua, Vol.75, No.1, pp. 373-391, 2023, DOI:10.32604/cmc.2023.034770 - 06 February 2023

Abstract In edge computing, a reasonable edge resource bidding mechanism can enable edge providers and users to obtain benefits in a relatively fair fashion. To maximize such benefits, this paper proposes a dynamic multi-attribute resource bidding mechanism (DMRBM). Most of the previous work mainly relies on a third-party agent to exchange information to gain optimal benefits. It is worth noting that when edge providers and users trade with third-party agents which are not entirely reliable and trustworthy, their sensitive information is prone to be leaked. Moreover, the privacy protection of edge providers and users must be… More >

Dhanalakshmi R¹, Sovan Samanta², Arun Kumar Sivaraman³, Jeong Gon Lee^4,*, Balasundaram A⁵, Sanamdikar Sanjay Tanaji⁶, Priya Ravindran⁷

Computer Systems Science and Engineering, Vol.44, No.3, pp. 1939-1950, 2023, DOI:10.32604/csse.2023.026254 - 01 August 2022

Abstract Fuzzy sets have undergone several expansions and generalisations in the literature, including Atanasov’s intuitionistic fuzzy sets, type 2 fuzzy sets, and fuzzy multisets, to name a few. They can be regarded as fuzzy multisets from a formal standpoint; nevertheless, their interpretation differs from the two other approaches to fuzzy multisets that are currently available. Hesitating fuzzy sets (HFS) are very useful if consultants have hesitation in dealing with group decision-making problems between several possible memberships. However, these possible memberships can be not only crisp values in [0,1], but also interval values during a practical evaluation… More >