“…Several different ways to specify membership functions have been proposed. Some of the approaches have expert-based specifications (Pedrycz & Gomide, 1998;Pedrycz & Gomide, 2007), while others are data-driven (Hasuike, Katagiri, & Tsubaki, 2015a, 2015bJalota, Thakur, & Mittal, 2017;Kaufmann, Meier, & Stoffel, 2015;Pazhoumand-Dar, Lam, & Masek, 2017;Pedrycz & Wang, 2016;Pota, Esposito, & Pietro, 2013;Runkler, 2016). Although the membership function plays an important role in capturing uncertainty in the construction industry, little research has been done on the specification of membership functions in such contexts.…”