We study the problems involved in the recursive de nition of (quasi) orders on terms, focussing on the question of establishing well-de nedness, and the properties required for partial and quasi-orders: irre exivity and transitivity, and re exivity and transitivity, respectively. These properties are in general di cult to establish and this has in many cases come down in the literature as folkl...

Transitivity in trust is very often considered as a quite simple property, trivially inferable from the classical transitivity defined in mathematics, logic, or grammar. In fact the complexity of the trust notion suggests evaluating the relationships with the transitivity in a more adequate way. In this paper, starting from a socio-cognitive model of trust, we analyze the different aspects and ...

After reviewing commutativity of second-order linear time-varying analog systems, the inverse commutativity conditions are derived for these systems by considering non-zero initial conditions. On the base of these conditions, the transitivity property is studied for second order linear time-varying unrelaxed analog systems. It is proven that this property is always valid for such systems when t...

A recently proposed method for the pairwise comparison of arbitrary independent random variables results in a probabilistic relation. When restricted to discrete random variables uniformly distributed on finite multisets of numbers, this probabilistic relation expresses the winning probabilities between pairs of hypothetical dice that carry these numbers and exhibits a particular type of transi...

In decision making, in order to avoid misleading solutions, the study of consistency when the decision makers express their opinions by means of preference relations becomes a very important aspect in order to avoid misleading solutions. In decision making problems based on fuzzy preference relations the study of consistency is associated with the study of the transitivity property. In this pap...

In the previous years some authors have been elaborating on the measurementtheoretic foundations of fuzzy set theory. A well-known problem in this approach is the difficult applicability of the deterministically formulated axioms on data obtained from an expert (or social science data in general). In this paper a statistical method is proposed which can be used for the testing of measurement ax...