Assisting Users in Decisions Using Fuzzy Ontologies: Application in the Wine Market

Juan Antonio Morente-Molinera, Francisco Javier Cabrerizo, Sergio Alonso, Ignacio Javier Pérez and Enrique Herrera-Viedma
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Juan Antonio Morente-Molinera: Andalusian Research Institute in Data Science and Computational Intelligence, University of Granada, 18010 Granada, Spain
Francisco Javier Cabrerizo: Andalusian Research Institute in Data Science and Computational Intelligence, University of Granada, 18010 Granada, Spain
Sergio Alonso: Andalusian Research Institute in Data Science and Computational Intelligence, University of Granada, 18010 Granada, Spain
Ignacio Javier Pérez: Department of Computer Sciences and Engineering, University of Cadiz, 11003 Cadiz, Spain
Enrique Herrera-Viedma: Andalusian Research Institute in Data Science and Computational Intelligence, University of Granada, 18010 Granada, Spain

Mathematics, 2020, vol. 8, issue 10, 1-18

Abstract: Nowadays, wine has become a very popular item to purchase. There are a lot of brands and a lot of different types of wines that have different prices and characteristics. Since there is a lot of options, it is easy for buyers to feel lost among the high number of possibilities. Therefore, there is a need for computational tools that help buyers to decide which is the wine that better fits their necessities. In this article, a decision support system built over a fuzzy ontology has been designed for helping people to select a wine. Two different possible architecture implementation designs are presented. Furthermore, imprecise information is used to design a comfortable way of providing information to the system. Users can use this comfortable communication system to express their preferences and provide their opinion about the selected products. Moreover, mechanisms to carry out a constant update of the fuzzy ontology are exposed.

Keywords: decision support systems; fuzzy ontologies; computing with words (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: C (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2020
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