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The problem of decision making in an imprecise environment has found paramount importance in recent years. In this paper, we define vague soft relation and similarity measure of vague soft sets. Using these definitions, some novel methods of object recognition from an imprecise multiobserver data has been presented. Moreover, we introduce the notion of generalized vague soft sets and study some of its properties. The similarity measure of generalized vague soft sets is also presented and an application of this measure in decision making problems has been shown.
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This work is supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China under Grant Nos.11571276, 11501444; the Postdoctoral Science Foundation of China under Grant Nos. 2013M532079, 2014T70932; the Science Research Foundation of Education Department of Shanxi Provincial Government under Grant No.15JK1735; the Science Research Foundation of Northwest University under Grant No.12NW04.
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Wang, C., Qu, Aj. The applications of vague soft sets and generalized vague soft sets. Acta Math. Appl. Sin. Engl. Ser. 31, 977–990 (2015). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10255-015-0517-x
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