In this article, we return to the problem of the derivation of a conclusion on the basis of fuzzy IF–THEN rules. The, so called Mamdani method is well elaborated and widely applied. In this article, we present an alternative to it. The fuzzy IF–THEN rules are here interpreted as genuine linguistic sentences consisting of the so called evaluating linguistic expressions. Sets of fuzzy IF–THEN rul...

We consider linguistic database summaries in the sense of Yager (1982), in an implementable form proposed by Kacprzyk & Yager (2001) and Kacprzyk, Yager & Zadrożny (2000), exemplified by, for a personnel database, “most employees are young and well paid” (with some degree of truth) and their extensions as a very general tool for a human consistent summarization of large data sets. We advocate t...

Ranking of fuzzy numbers plays a very important role in linguistic decision making and some other fuzzy application systems. Several strategies have been proposed for ranking of fuzzy numbers. Each of these techniques has been shown to produce nonintuitive results in certain cases. In this paper, some new approaches for ranking of trapezoidal fuzzy numbers are introduced. Keywords— Magnitude of...

Discrete event computer simulation is one of the most widely used modeling tools for production systems. Object-oriented programming is revolutionizing computer simulation software packages. A fuzzy set approach for multi-criteria selection of object-oriented simulation software for analysis of production system is developed in this paper. The approach uses fuzzy set theory and algebraic operat...

Different studies have proposedmethods formining fuzzy association rules fromquantitative data, where themembership functions were assumed to be known in advance. However, it is not an easy task to know a priori the most appropriate fuzzy sets that cover the domains of quantitative attributes for mining fuzzy association rules. This paper thus presents a new fuzzy data-mining algorithm for extr...

In fuzzy classi"er systems the classi"cation is obtained by a number of fuzzy If}Then rules including linguistic terms such as Low and High that fuzzify each feature. This paper presents a method by which a reduced linguistic (fuzzy) set of a labeled multi-dimensional data set can be identi"ed automatically. After the projection of the original data set onto a fuzzy space, the optimal subset of...

Information retrieval is the important work for Electronic Commerce. Ontology-based semantic retrieval is a hotspot of current research. In order to achieve fuzzy semantic retrieval, this paper applies a fuzzy ontology framework to information retrieval system in E-Commerce. The framework includes three parts: concepts, properties of concepts and values of properties, in which property’s value ...

A description of quantitative dependencies by a novel type of fuzzy rules like ‘If X is SMALL then Y is QUICKLY INCREASING’ is considered. The use of such rules for representation of perception based and numerical information about dependencies between variables is discussed. These rules are based on a granulation of directions of function change or slope values. Perception based information gi...

This paper presents an application of the novel theory of fuzzy networks for optimising models of systems characterised by uncertainty, non-linearity, modular structure and interactions. The application of the theory is demonstrated for retail price models in the context of converting a multiple rule base fuzzy system (MRBFS) into an equivalent single rule base fuzzy system (SRBFS) by linguisti...

In this paper, a Fuzzy Dominant Texture Descriptor is proposed for semantically describing an image. This fuzzy descriptor is defined over a set of fuzzy sets modelling the “coarseness” texture property. Concretely, fuzzy partitions on the domain of coarseness measures are proposed, where the number of linguistic labels and the parameters of the membership functions are calculated relating repr...