02212nas a2200361   4500000000100000008004100001260005900042653003100101653002800132653002000160653002300180653003000203653002400233653002100257653001500278653003100293653002800324653003400352653002400386653002400410653003100434653002100465653003300486100001800519700001500537700001100552245009900563856014700662300001200809490000600821520099800827020002501825                                       d  bInstitute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc.10aAnalytic hierarchy process10aArtificial intelligence10aChinese culture10aComputation theory10aDifferentiated protection10aEvaluation modeling10aFuzzy set theory10aFuzzy sets10aFuzzy synthetic evaluation10aHierarchical structures10aIntangible cultural heritages10aProtection strategy10aWeighting functions10aAnalytic hierarchy process10afuzzy set theory10aIntangible cultural heritage1 aYuxiang Kuang1 aMinghui Hu1 aQun Wu00aMulti-level Evaluation model for Intangible Cultural Heritage Status Based on Fuzzy set theory  uhttps://www.scopus.com/inward/record.uri?eid=2-s2.0-84978153876&doi=10.1109%2fISCID.2015.170&partnerID=40&md5=3bcf873cbd10f857e69fa3df99848186  a572-5760 v23 aChinese culture is a composite of these diverse Intangible Cultural Heritage (ICH). Large number of Chinese ICH needs to be protected. The ICH have its own personalized feature, resulted in the different survival state. When draw a ICH protection strategy, we must take into account not only the differences but also the feasibility of protection strategy. Therefore, this study uses Fuzzy set theory to rate these different ICH. Facing to different hierarchy ICH, differentiated protection strategy should be adopted. Owing to vague concepts frequently represented in ICH data, the information of the status of ICH is described based on Fuzzy set theory. Then the evaluated alternatives are arranged in a hierarchical structure with several levels, and the weighting function of each level criterion is quantified based on AHP method. Fuzzy Synthetic Evaluations is used to determine the rank of all ICH alternatives. Finally, the development of some ICH were taken as examples in this study.  a9781467395861 (ISBN)