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Among them, when the importance of multiple attributes is different, it can only be calculated by changing the interval-valued weights. In fact, we can directly abandon the commutativity and extend the interval-valued overlap functions (IO) to interval-valued pseudo overlap functions (IPO) so that function itself implies the weights of the attributes, thus there is no need to calculate the OWA operator, which is more flexible in applications. In addition, the similar generalization on interval-valued pseudo t-norms obtained from interval-valued t-norms further enhances the feasibility of our study. In this paper, we mainly present the notion of interval-valued pseudo overlap functions and a few their qualities, including migrativity and homogeneity, and give some construction theorems and specific examples. Then, we propose the definitions of residuated implications induced by interval-valued pseudo overlap functions, give their equivalent forms, and prove some properties satisfied by them. Finally, two application examples about IPO to interval-valued multi-attribute decision making (I-MADM) are described. The results show that interval-valued pseudo overlap functions can not only be used to obtain the same rankings, but also be more flexible, simple and widely used.<\/jats:p>","DOI":"10.3390\/axioms11050216","type":"journal-article","created":{"date-parts":[[2022,5,6]],"date-time":"2022-05-06T14:49:38Z","timestamp":1651848578000},"page":"216","update-policy":"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.3390\/mdpi_crossmark_policy","source":"Crossref","is-referenced-by-count":22,"title":["Interval-Valued Pseudo Overlap Functions and Application"],"prefix":"10.3390","volume":"11","author":[{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0001-9336-437X","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Rong","family":"Liang","sequence":"first","affiliation":[{"name":"School of Mathematics and Data Science, Shaanxi University of Science & Technology, Xi\u2019an 710021, China"}]},{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0003-2320-0884","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Xiaohong","family":"Zhang","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"School of Mathematics and Data Science, Shaanxi University of Science & Technology, Xi\u2019an 710021, China"}]}],"member":"1968","published-online":{"date-parts":[[2022,5,6]]},"reference":[{"key":"ref_1","doi-asserted-by":"crossref","first-page":"3898","DOI":"10.1016\/j.ins.2011.05.003","article-title":"Interval additive generators of interval t-norms and interval t-conorms","volume":"181","author":"Dimuro","year":"2011","journal-title":"Inf. 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