Canonical fuzzy numbers of dimension two and fuzzy utility difference for understanding preferential judgments (Q1264085)

A notion of canonical fuzzy numbers of dimension two is introduced to represent flexible joint distributions of two fuzzy numbers whose membership functions are of a common functional type. The relationships between fuzzy numbers are given by normalized scalars, called relational factors, in the joint distributions. Then the canonical fuzzy numbers are adopted to operate fuzzy utility differences and their aggregations for understanding human uncertain preferential judgments among multiattribute alternatives.