Fuzziness is not a priori an obvious concept and demands some explanation. “Fuzziness” is what Black (NF 1937) calls “vagueness” when he distinguishes it from “generality” and from “ambiguity.” Generalizing refers to the application of a symbol to a multiplicity of objects in the field of reference, ambiguity to the association of a finite number of alternative meanings having the same phonetic...

The study of theory of fuzzy sets was initiated by Zadeh in 1965. Since then many authors have extended and developed the theory of fuzzy sets in the fields of topology and analysis. The notion of fuzzy metric spaces has very important applications in quantum particle physics. As a result many authors have extended the Banach's Contraction Principle to fuzzy metric spaces and proved fixed ...

This paper introduces a new approach to topology, based on category theory and universal algebra, and called categorically-algebraic (catalg) topology. It incorporates the most important settings of lattice-valued topology, including poslat topology of S.~E.~Rodabaugh, $(L,M)$-fuzzy topology of T.~Kubiak and A.~v{S}ostak, and $M$-fuzzy topology on $L$-fuzzy sets of C.~Guido. Moreover, its respe...

As Similarity measure for fuzzy sets is one of the important research topics of fuzzy set theory, there are several methods to measure similarity between two fuzzy sets (FS), Intuitionistic fuzzy sets (IFS) and Intuitionistic fuzzy multi sets (IFMS). In this paper, the Normalized Hamming Similarity measure of Intuitionistic Fuzzy Multi sets (IFMS) is introduced. This new measure for IFMS is bas...

energy is a critical factor to obtain a sustainable development for countries and governments. selection of the most appropriate energy alternative is a completely critical and a complex decision making problem. in this paper, an integrated multi-criteria decision-making (mcdm) methodology based on type-2 fuzzy sets is proposed for selection among energy alternatives. then a roadmap has been cr...

The n-dimensional fuzzy sets have been introduced as a generalization of interval-valued fuzzy sets, Atanassov’s intuitionistic and interval-valued intuitionistic fuzzy sets. In this paper we investigate t-norms on 3-dimensional sets which are joinmorphisms. Under some additional conditions we show that they can be represented using a representation which generalizes a similar representation fo...

Rough set theory introduced by Pawlak [8] is based on equivalence relations. The definition of basic rough sets depends upon a single equivalence relation defined on the universe or several equivalence relations taken one each taken at a time. In the view of granular computing, classical rough set theory is based upon single granulation. The basic rough set model was extended to rough set model...

In many applications, multiple correlation and partial correlation for three or more fuzzy sets are very important, but Chiang and Lin (1999, Fuzzy Sets and Systems 102: 221–226) do not solve this problem. Here, we propose a method to calculate the multiple correlation and partial correlation for fuzzy data, by adopting the concepts from the multivariate correlation model. In order to fit into ...

In this paper, the concept of extended intersection and restricted union of intuitionistic fuzzy soft sets are introduced. Some operations on intuitionistic fuzzy soft sets are investigated, and we prove that De Morgan’s laws hold in intuitionistic fuzzy soft sets theory. Based on these properties, we discuss the algebraic structures of intuitionistic fuzzy soft sets, which is lattice structure...