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Further, interval-valued picture fuzzy sets (IVPFSs) are effective and useful to describe the fuzzy information. Therefore, this manuscript aims to develop some similarity measures for IVPFSs due to the significance of describing the membership grades of picture fuzzy set in terms of intervals. Several types cosine similarity measures, cotangent similarity measures, set-theoretic and grey similarity measures, four types of dice similarity measures and generalized dice similarity measures are developed. All the developed similarity measures are validated, and their properties are demonstrated. Two well-known problems, including mineral field recognition problems and multi-attribute decision making problems, are solved using the newly developed similarity measures. The superiorities of developed similarity measures over the similarity measures of picture fuzzy sets, interval-valued intuitionistic fuzzy sets and intuitionistic fuzzy sets are demonstrated through a comparison and numerical examples.<\/jats:p>","DOI":"10.3390\/info10120369","type":"journal-article","created":{"date-parts":[[2019,11,25]],"date-time":"2019-11-25T11:12:21Z","timestamp":1574680341000},"page":"369","update-policy":"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.3390\/mdpi_crossmark_policy","source":"Crossref","is-referenced-by-count":49,"title":["Some Similarity Measures for Interval-Valued Picture Fuzzy Sets and Their Applications in Decision Making"],"prefix":"10.3390","volume":"10","author":[{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0001-5048-8145","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Peide","family":"Liu","sequence":"first","affiliation":[{"name":"School of Economics and Management, Civil Aviation University of China, Tianjin 300300, China"},{"name":"School of Management Science and Engineering, Shandong University of Finance and Economics, Jinan 250014, China"}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"given":"Muhammad","family":"Munir","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Department of Mathematics and Statistics, International Islamic University, Islamabad 44000, Pakistan"}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0002-3871-3845","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Tahir","family":"Mahmood","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Department of Mathematics and Statistics, International Islamic University, Islamabad 44000, Pakistan"}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0002-1438-6413","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Kifayat","family":"Ullah","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Department of Mathematics and Statistics, International Islamic University, Islamabad 44000, Pakistan"}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]}],"member":"1968","published-online":{"date-parts":[[2019,11,25]]},"reference":[{"key":"ref_1","doi-asserted-by":"crossref","first-page":"338","DOI":"10.1016\/S0019-9958(65)90241-X","article-title":"Fuzzy Sets","volume":"8","author":"Zadeh","year":"1965","journal-title":"Inf. control"},{"key":"ref_2","doi-asserted-by":"crossref","first-page":"199","DOI":"10.1016\/0020-0255(75)90036-5","article-title":"The concept of a linguistic variable and its application to approximate reasoning","volume":"8","author":"Zadeh","year":"1975","journal-title":"Inf. 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