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Zadeh (1965) introduced the concept of fuzzy sets as the generalization of traditional classical sets. Atanassov (1983, 1986) introduced the concept of intuitionistic fuzzy set (IFS), which is characterized by a membership degree, non-membership degree, and a hesitancy degree. So IFS is more powerful tool to deal with uncertainty and vagueness in real applications than fuzzy sets and received more and more attention since its appearance. Gau and Buehrer (1993) gave the concept of vague set. However, Bustine and Burillo (1996) proved that the notion of vague set is the same as that of IFS. Turksen (1986) and Gorzaleczany (1987) studied the notion of interval-valued fuzzy sets (IVFSs). A generalization of the notion of ordinary interval valued fuzzy sets was given by Atanassov and Gargov (1989), and introduced the notions of interval-valued intuitionistic fuzzy sets (IVIFSs), which is characterized by a membership degree range and a non-membership degree range. Atanassov (1994) defined some operators over IVIFSs. The book published by Li (2014) provides theoretical researches and practical applications from different fields especially decision science, fuzzy system theory, and intuitionistic fuzzy system theory.
Chen and Tan (1994) and Hong and Choi (2000) presented methods for handling multi-criteria fuzzy decision-making problems under vague set theory. Li (2005), Lin et al. (2007), Liu and Wang (2007), Xu (2007a, 2007b) and Tan and Chen (2010) developed some methods for multi-criteria fuzzy decision-making methods based on IFSs. The pioneering work of Atanassov and Gargov (1989) has received much more attention from practitioners due to the huge applications in decision making. Xu (2007c), Xu and Chen (2007a, 2007b), Ye (2009) and Yu et al. (2012) were studied multi-criteria fuzzy decision-making methods based on IVIFSs. He et al. (2013) developed a series of generalized interval-valued Atanassov’s intuitionistic fuzzy power aggregation operators by generalizing the power averaging operators to interval-valued Atanassov’s intuitionistic fuzzy environments. He et al. (2015) presented a multiple attribute decision making method under intuitionistic fuzzy environment based on Bonferroni mean (BM) and it was further extended by He and He (2015). Recently, Li and Liu (2015) developed a new methodology for solving matrix games with payoffs of Atanassov's intuitionistic fuzzy (I-fuzzy) numbers. Wan and Li (2015) developed a mathematical programming method for the IVIF on the basis of the attribute weights and fuzzy ideal solution (FIS).