Extended Linguistic Variable Based on the Modified Words
Sheng Zhou, Wen Bing Chang · Applied Mechanics and Materials · 2011
This paper aims to expand the concept of linguistic variable. The study analyzes the common conclusion forms in the evaluation project. The evaluation often makes the final conclusion by analyzing the fuzzy number and its membership function. However, the information of modified word or phrase (“largely”, “preliminary” and “unclear”) has got lost in analysis. The study develops the extended linguistic variable by integrating the modified and traditional linguistic variable. It is useful to understand the means of ambiguity exactly in the manufacturing processing.