An Extended Interval Type-2 Fuzzy VIKOR Technique with Equitable Linguistic Scales and Z-Numbers for Solving Water Security Problems in Malaysia

Table 2

Linguistic scale of reliability for the extended IT2FVIKOR.

Linguistic terms	Linguistic scale
Strongly Unlikely (SU)	((−1.0, −0.9, −0.8, −0.7; 0.8, 0.8),(−1.0, −1.0, −0.8, −0.6; 1, 1))
Unlikely (U)	((−0.8, −0.7, −0.5, −0.4; 0.8, 0.8), (−0.9, −0.7, −0.5, −0.3; 1, 1))
Somewhat Unlikely (SWU)	((−0.5, −0.4, −0.2, −0.1; 0.8, 0.8), (−0.6, −0.4, −0.2, 0; 1, 1))
Neutral (N)	((−0.2, −0.1, 0.1, 0.2; 0.8, 0.8), (−0.3, −0.2, 0.2, 0.3; 1, 1))
Somewhat Likely (SWL)	((0.1, 0.2, 0.4, 0.5; 0.8, 0.8), (0, 0.2, 0.4, 0.6; 1, 1))
Likely (L)	((0.4, 0.5, 0.7, 0.8; 0.8, 0.8), (0.3, 0.5, 0.7, 0.9; 1, 1))
Strongly Likely (SLL)	((0.7, 0.8, 1.0, 1.0; 0.8, 0.8), (0.6, 0.8, 1.0, 1.0; 1, 1))