Mass customization has been identified as a competitive strategy by an increasing number of companies. Family-based product design has been recognized as an efficient and effective means to realize sufficient product variety to satisfy a range of customer demands in support for mass customization. This chapter presents a knowledge-supported approach to concept evaluation and selection in design...

In this paper, we introduce the notion of (∊,∊˅qk)-intuitionistic fuzzy subalgebrasas a generalization of an (∊,∊˅q)-intuitionistic fuzzy subalgebrasin BEalgebras. Characterizations (∊,∊˅qk)-intuitionistic fuzzy subalgebrasare established. Finally, we show that the Cartesian product of (∊,∊˅qk)-intuitionistic fuzzy subalgebras is an (∊,∊˅qk)-intuitionistic fuzzy subalgebras.

This paper discusses the properties of multi-fuzzy sets with product order and dictionary order on their membership functions. In particular the relationship between multi-fuzzy sets and other sets such as intuitionistic fuzzy sets, type-2 fuzzy sets, multisets and fuzzy multisets are studied. 2010 AMS Classification: 03E72, 06D72, 08A72

The contents and meanings of mapping relationships between physical domain and function domain in different design stages, such as conceptual design, detail design and enhancement design, were analyzed. According to the analysis results, the fuzzy mapping between physical domain and function domain in different design stages was established by integrating objective information and subjective in...

The aim of this paper is to define the productoperation on a family of interval valued events and the notion ofjoint interval valued observable. We show the connection betweenproduct operations for interval valued events and intuitionisticfuzzy events, too. We display the relation between joint intervalvalued observable and joint intuitionistic fuzzy observable. We...

Fuzzy inference systems have been applied in recent years in various medical fields due to their ability to obtain good results featuring white-box models. Adaptive Neuro-Fuzzy Inference System (ANFIS), which combines adaptive neural network capabilities with the fuzzy logic qualitative approach, has been previously used in modelling survival of breast cancer patients based on patient groups de...