The Shadowed Set, Intuitionistic Fuzzy Set and their Three-way Decision

Abstract

The theory of three-way decision provides an effective tool for decision-making under uncertainty and incomplete information when a two-way decision is difficult to make. In this paper, we try to transform an intuitionistic fuzzy set into a pessimistic shadowed set or an optimistic shadowed set by using two intuitionistic fuzzy parameters and the classical shadowed set. Accordingly, the pessimistic three-way decision or the optimistic three-way decision of intuitionistic fuzzy set are investigated by means of the proposed shadowed sets. In addition, a method to calculate the thresholds by the minimum cost principle is proposed and some examples are given for illustrating the validity of the method.