An overview of interval-valued intuitionistic fuzzy information aggregations and applications

Interval-valued intuitionistic fuzzy set, generalized by Atanassov and Gargov, can be used to characterize the uncertain information more sufficiently and accurately when we face the fact that the values of the membership function and the non-membership function in an intuitionistic fuzzy set are difficult to be expressed as exact real numbers in many real-world decision-making problems. In this paper, we provide an overview of interval-valued intuitionistic fuzzy information aggregation techniques, and their applications in various fields such as decision-making, entropy measure, supplier selection and some practical decision-making problems. Meanwhile, we also review some important methods for decision-making with interval-valued intuitionistic fuzzy information, including the QUALIFLEX-based method, the TOPSIS method, the extended VIKOR method, the module partition schemes evaluation (MPSE) approach, the outranking choice method, the inclusion-based LINMAP method and the risk attitudinal ranking method, the evidential reasoning methodology, etc. Finally, we point out some possible directions for future research. © 2016, Springer International Publishing Switzerland.