Some Novel Cosine Similarity Measures Based on Complex Hesitant Fuzzy Sets and Their Applications

Abstract

The theory of complex hesitant fuzzy set (CHFS) is a modification technique of the complex fuzzy set (CFS) to cope with awkward and unreliable information’s in daily life issues. CHFS contains the grade of truth in the form of complex number, whose real and imaginary parts are in the form of the finite subset of the unit interval. CHFS is the mixture of hesitant fuzzy set (HFS) and CFS, which handles the complex and uncertain information in real-world issues which is compared with fuzzy sets and complex fuzzy sets. The positive membership in CHFS is in the form a polar coordinate belonging to unit disc in the complex plane. The aims of this manuscript are to explore some similarity measures (SMs), weighted SMs (WSMs) such as cosine SMs, weighted cosine SMs, SMs based on cosine function, WSMs based on cosine function, SMs based on tangent function, and WSMs based on tangent function of CHFS. Some special cases of the presented measures are discussed in detail. Moreover, we use our described SMs and weighted SMs of CHFS in the environment of medical diagnosis and pattern recognition to assess the practicality and competence of the described SMs. Finally, to find the validity and proficiency of the investigated measures based on CHFSs, the comparison between explored measures with some already defined measures and their graphical representations are also discussed in detail.