An Advanced Entropy Measure of IFSs via Similarity Measure

Abstract

The Entropy measure of an intuitionistic fuzzy set (IFS) plays a significant role in decision making sciences, for instance, medical diagnosis, pattern recognition, criminal investigation, etc. The inadequate nature of an entropy measure may lead to some invalid results. Therefore, it is significant to use an efficient entropy measure for studying various decision-making problems under IFS environment. This paper first proposes a novel similarity measure for IFS. Based on the proposed similarity measure, an advanced entropy measure is defined with a different axiomatic approach. This axiomatic approach allows us to measure an IFS's entropy with the help of a similarity measure. To show the efficiency of the proposed similarity measure, a comparative study is performed with the existing similarity measures. Some structural linguistic variables are taken as examples to show the validity and consistency of the proposed entropy measure along with the existing entropy measures. Finally, based on the proposed entropy measure, a multi-criteria decision-making problem is performed.