In fuzzy rule-based models acquired from numerical data, redundancy may be present in the form of similar fuzzy sets that represent compatible concepts. This results in an unnecessarily complex and less transparent linguistic description of the system. By using a measure of similarity, a rule base simplification method is proposed that reduces the number of fuzzy sets in the model. Similar fuzz...

We studied the Cauchy problem of fuzzy di erential equations on the basis of introducing the concept of di erentiation which is a generalization of the de nition of H-di erentiability due to Puri and Ralescu (1983), for fuzzy set-valued mappings of real variables whose values are in the fuzzy number space (E; D). The existence and uniqueness theorem is obtained for the Cauchy problem x′=f(t; x)...

In this paper we propose the extension of some aggregation or arithmetic operations between discrete fuzzy numbers to discrete fuzzy number-valued multisets such as the addition, the union and the intersection and, even, the order. For this reason, we prove or recall some properties of discrete fuzzy numbers and we undertake their study on multisets.

in this paper we enumerate fuzzy subgroups, up to a natural equivalence, of some finite abelian p-groups of rank two where p is any prime number. after obtaining the number of maximal chains of subgroups, we count fuzzy subgroups using inductive arguments. the number of such fuzzy subgroups forms a polynomial in p with pleasing combinatorial coefficients. by exploiting the order, we label the s...

coriolis mass flow meters are one of the most accurate tools to measure the mass flow in the industry. however, two-phase mode (gas-liquid) may cause severe operating difficulties as well as decreasing certitude in measurement. this paper presents a method based on fuzzy systems to correct the error and improve the reliability of these sensors in the presence of two-phase model fluid. definite ...

recently, abbasbandy and asady have been proposed a modificationof the distance based approach, namely ``sign distance method''.however, in this paper, it is shown that this method has some drawbacks, i.e.,the result is not consistent with human intuition for specialcases and this method cannot always logically infer rankingorder of the images of the fuzzy numbers. in this paper, wepresent a re...

the objective of this paper is to deal with the fuzzy conic program- ming problems. the aim here is to derive weak and strong duality theorems for a general fuzzy conic programming. toward this end, the convexity-like concept of fuzzy mappings is introduced and then a speci c ordering cone is established based on the parameterized representation of fuzzy numbers. un- der this setting, duality t...

In many applications of fuzzy set theory, the membership of an object is not defined directly. One of its attributes (like height, age, weight, . . . ) is first mapped on a real number (often by means of a physical instrument) and a parametric function then maps this real number on a membership degree in some fuzzy set (like ‘tall’, ‘old’, ‘heavy’, . . . ). A very common parametric function is ...

The Transactions in web data often consist of quantitative data, suggesting that fuzzy set theory can be used to represent such data. The time spent by users on each web page is one type of web data, was regarded as a trapezoidal membership function (TMF) and can be used to evaluate user browsing behavior. The quality of mining fuzzy association rules depends on membership functions and since t...

and Applied Analysis 3 2.1. Fuzzy Numbers In this section, we give certain essential concepts of fuzzy numbers and their basic properties. For further information see 2, 3 . A fuzzy set à on a set X is a function à : X → 0, 1 . Generally, the symbol μà is used for the function à and it is said that the fuzzy set à is characterized by itsmembership function μà : X → 0, 1 which associates with ea...