Three-Way Group Decision in a Covering Decision Information System

Abstract

Three-way decision (3WD) provides a new perspective for solving practical decision-making problems, which is in line with human's cognitive pattern. A covering information system (CIS) is an information system (IS) that consists of multiple coverings in the universe. A CIS with decision attributes which is seen as a covering decision information system (CDIS). This paper proposes three-way group decisions in a CDIS, as well as gives its application on the problem of position competition. First of all, the neighbourhood of every point in a CDIS is defined, and corresponding similarity class of this point is also obtained. Then, because of the uncertainty of risks, loss functions are acquired through group decision-making by means of interval numbers. Next, a method of three-way group decisions in a CDIS is presented. Eventually, the position competition is presented as an example to support our proposed decision-making method.