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In CBR practical application, there are hybrid attribute values for case attributes. The representation of the case and performing case retrieval with high retrieval accuracy for hybrid multiple formats of attribute values are significant challenges, but an in-depth study is lacking. The objective of this paper is to develop a new case retrieval method to hybrid multi-attribute, which contains four formats of attribute values, i.e., crisp numbers, interval numbers, multi-granularity linguistic variables, and intuitionistic fuzzy numbers (IFNs). First, crisp numbers, interval numbers, and multi-granularity linguistic variables are transformed into IFNs and an attribute similarity measurement based on IFNs is proposed. The attribute weights are determined by an optimal matching model. This model belongs to a type of multi-objective problem and can be solved using the min-max method. 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