Fuzzy relations are mappings from pairs of elements into the interval [0, 1]. As a replacement for the complement operation one can use the mapping that sends x to 1 − x. Together with the concepts of t-norm and t-conorm a weak form of Boolean algebra can be defined. However, to our knowledge so far no notion of domain or codomain has been investigated for fuzzy relations. These might, however,...

Because of the complexity of limitation and realistic decision of decision knowledge, multiple attribute decision making problems with the attribute value often need to characterize fuzzy number. The triangular fuzzy number to describe this kind of ambiguity is very effective and for the project investment selection problem with triangular fuzzy numbers, this study puts forward a new multiple a...

The medical arti®cial intelligence community congratulates you on your 80th birthday on 4 February 2001. On behalf of all patients and non-patients who are, or will in the future be, enjoying the medical fruits of your work, we would like to thank you for initiating and advancing The Fuzzy Revolution in science, technology, and society. Medicine has been among the privileged areas to early reco...

Single-period problem (SPP) is a classical stochastic inventory model that has become very popular recently. In this research, we developed a SPP with fuzzy environment. The demand of each product is considered as LR-fuzzy variables (ranking fuzzy numbers based on the left and right deviation degrees), and multiple constraints (including service level, batch order, budget, space and upper limit...

In this paper we extend some results concerning ideals of left regular and intra-regular ordered semigroups to fuzzy ordered semigroups. A theory of fuzzy sets on ordered groupoids and ordered semigroups can be developed. Some results on ordered groupoidssemigroups have been already given by the same authors. The aim of writing this paper is to show the way we pass from the theory of ordered se...

Motivated by aspects of robustness in parsing a context-free language, we study generalized fuzzy context-free grammars. These fuzzy context-free K-grammars provide a general framework to describe correctly as well as erroneously derived sentences by a single generating mechanism. They model the situation of making a finite choice out of an infinity of possible grammatical errors during each co...

In this paper, we propose a novel balanced scorecard design based on fuzzy analytic network process and then conduct performance evaluation through a case study. After analyzing the related works about balanced scorecard design and the algorithm of fuzzy analytic network process, we illustrate the improved balanced scorecard design. Firstly, the basic concepts for the balanced scorecards are in...

F TP (Fuzzy Template Predicate) is proposed as a template to incorporate concept-based match into fuzzy production languages. A thesaurus augmented in F TP supports the concept-based match, which is more sophisticated than previous fuzzy match mechanisms. Membership functions for fuzzy linguistic variables and fuzzy numbers are used as an interface to the thesaurus. F TP also has self reening f...

This paper deals with a new family of (A, N)-implications that derived from fuzzy negation and continuous monotone function, and some properties, like the left neutrally, the exchange principle, the ordering property and the laws of contraposition, of the proposed family of (A, N)-implications are studied. Moreover, the T-conditionality and the Modus tollens for the new family of (A, N)-i...