The notion of “similarity” as defined in this paper is essentially a generalization of the notion of equivalence. In the same vein, a fuzzy ordering is a generalization of the concept of ordering. For example, the relation x *y (x is much larger than y) is a fuzzy linear ordering in the set of real numbers. More concretely, a similarity relation, S, is a fuzzy relation which is reflexive, symme...

This paper presents the fuzzy induced heavy ordered weighted averaging (FIHOWA) operator. It is an aggregation operator that uses the main characteristics of three well known aggregation operators: the heavy OWA, the induced OWA and the fuzzy OWA operator. Therefore, this operator provides a parameterized family of aggregation operators that includes the OWA operator and the total operator as s...

We study a stochastic model of influence where agents have “yes” or “no” inclinations on some issue, and opinions may change due to mutual influence among the agents. Each agent independently aggregates the opinions of the other agents and possibly herself. We study influence processes modelled by ordered weighted averaging operators, which are anonymous: they only depend on how many agents sha...

The universal algebraic literature is rife with generalisations of discriminator varieties, whereby several investigators have tried to preserve in more general settings as much as possible of their structure theory. Here, we modify the definition of discriminator algebra by having the switching function project onto its third coordinate in case the ordered pair of its first two coordinates bel...

Using the notion of bipolar-valued fuzzy sets, the concepts of bipolar fuzzy (weak, s-weak, strong) hyper BCK-ideals are introduced, and their relations are discussed in [3]. Further properties are investigated in this article. We show that if Φ = (H ;μΦ , μ N Φ ) is a bipolar fuzzy (weak, strong) hyper BCK-ideal of a hyper BCK-algebra H, then the set I := {x ∈ H | μΦ(x) = μΦ(0), μΦ (x) = μΦ (0...

The general goal of the research in this article is to devise an artificial neural network that requires less computational power than ordinary one for assessing overall life satisfaction—a term often referred as quality (QoL). development mentioned ANN was possible due application fuzzy logic, especially ordered numbers (OFN). Research on appliance OFN aims at different issues such detection a...

In multiperson decision making situations, it is quite natural that different decision makers who may have different background and knowledge will provide their preferences by different kinds of preference relations. This paper proposes a linguistic multiperson decision making model (LMDMM) based on linguistic preference relations, integrating fuzzy preference relations, different types of mult...