Hesitant fuzzy soft sets

– A new hybrid structure- hesitant fuzzy soft set, involving soft set is introduced. Soft set is relatively a new approach initiated by Molodtsov in 1999 to deal impreciseness and uncertainty. Hesitant fuzzy set is a generalization of fuzzy set whose membership is a subset of [0,1]. This paper is an endeavor to establish a link between soft sets and hesitant fuzzy sets. Basic operation such as intersection, union, compliment is defined and De Morgan’s law is also proved. It also discusses its use in decision making problem
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