Fuzzy Sets, Decision Making, and Expert Systems

1 Introduction.- The Logic of Decisions, Behavioral Decision Theory, and Decision Technology.- Optimization, Outranking, Evaluation.- Basics of Fuzzy Set Theory.- 2 Individual Decision Making in Fuzzy Environments.- Symmetrical Models.- Nonsymmetrical Models.- Fuzzy Utilities.- 3 Multi-Person Decision Making in Fuzzy Environments.- Basic Models.- Fuzzy Games.- Fuzzy Team Theory.- Fuzzy Group Decision Making.- 4 Fuzzy Mathematical Programming.- Fuzzy Linear and Nonlinear Programming.- Fuzzy Multi-Stage Programming.- 5 Multi-Criteria Decision Making in Ill-Structured Situations.- Fuzzy Multi-Criteria Programming.- Multi-Attribute Decision Making (MADM).- Fuzzy Outranking.- 6 Operators and Membership Functions in Decision Models.- Axiomatic, Pragmatic, and Empirical Justification.- The Measurement of Membership Functions.- Selecting Appropriate Operators in Decision Models.- 7 Decision Support Systems.- Knowledge-Based vs. Data-Based Systems.- Linguistic Variables, Fuzzy Logic, Approximate Reasoning.- An Interactive Decision Support System for Fuzzy and Semi-fuzzy Multi-Objective Problems.- Expert Systems and Fuzzy Sets.