In this paper, we present a new method for fuzzy query processing for document retrieval based on extended fuzzy concept networks. In an extended fuzzy concept network, there are four kinds of fuzzy relationships between concepts, i.e., fuzzy positive association, fuzzy negative association, fuzzy generalization, and fuzzy specialization. An extended fuzzy concept network can be modeled by a re...

In this paper we generate fuzzy relations and fuzzy operators using different kind of generators and we study the relationship between them. Firstly, we introduce a new fuzzy preorder induced by a fuzzy operator. We generalize this preorder to a fuzzy relation generated by two fuzzy operators and we analyze its properties. Secondly, we introduce and explore two ways of inducing a fuzzy operator...

In a recent paper, De Baets et al. have characterized the fuzzytolerance and fuzzy equivalence relations that a given strict order relation iscompatible with. In this paper, we generalize this characterization by consideringan arbitrary (crisp) relation instead of a strict order relation, while payingattention to the particular cases of a reflexive or irreflexive relation. The reasoninglargely ...

in this paper, the finitely many constraints of a fuzzy relationinequalities problem are studied and the linear objective function on the regiondefined by a fuzzy max-average operator is optimized. a new simplificationtechnique which accelerates the resolution of the problem by removing thecomponents having no effect on the solution process is given together with analgorithm and a numerical exa...

we prove a related fixed point theorem for n mappings which arenot necessarily continuous in n fuzzy metric spaces using an implicit relationone of them is a sequentially compact fuzzy metric space which generalizeresults of aliouche, et al. [2], rao et al. [14] and [15].

As the same framework of Fuzzy decision processes with the discounted case we will specify an average fuzzy criterion model and develop its optimization by “fuzzy max order” under appropriate conditions. The average reward is characterized, by introducing a relative value function, as a unique solution of the associated equation. Also we derive the optimality equation using the “vanishing disco...

In this paper we introduce an algebraic fuzzy equation of degree n with fuzzy coefficients and crisp variable, and we present an iterative method to find the real roots of such equations, numerically. We present an algorithm to generate a sequence that can be converged to the root of an algebraic fuzzy equation. 2007 Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved. MSC: 12E12; 39B22; 65H05