This paper introduces a new approach to classification which combines pairwise decomposition techniques with ideas and tools from fuzzy preference modeling. More specifically, our approach first decomposes a polychotomous classification problem involving m classes into an ensemble of binary problems, one for each ordered pair of classes. The corresponding classifiers are trained on the relevant...

The starting point of this paper is given by Priestley’s papers, where a theory of representation of distributive lattices is presented. The purpose of this paper is to develop a representation theory of fuzzy distributive lattices in the finite case. In this way, some results of Priestley’s papers are extended. In the main theorem, we show that the category of finite fuzzy Priestley space...

In this paper we introduce bipolar fuzzy subsemigroup, bipolar fuzzy left (right) ideals and bipolar fuzzy bi-ideal in ordered semigroups. We characterize different classes of ordered semigroups by the properties of their bipolar fuzzy ideals and bipolar fuzzy bi-ideals.

It is well known that the right (left) regular, regular, and intra-regular ordered semigroups play an essential role in studying the structure, especially the decomposition, of ordered semigroups. In the present paper we study some more general classes containing the right regular, left regular, regular and intra-regular ordered semigroups. As an application of our results we get characterizati...

based on a complete heyting algebra, we modify the definition oflattice-valued fuzzifying convergence space using fuzzy inclusionorder and construct in this way a cartesian-closed category, calledthe category of $l-$ordered fuzzifying convergence spaces, in whichthe category of $l-$fuzzifying topological spaces can be embedded.in addition, two new categories are introduced, which are called the...

We study the existence of periodic solutions of the non–autonomous periodic Lyness’ recurrence un+2 = (an +un+1)/un, where {an}n is a cycle with positive values a,b and with positive initial conditions. It is known that for a = b = 1 all the sequences generated by this recurrence are 5–periodic. We prove that for each pair (a, b) 6= (1, 1) there are infinitely many initial conditions giving ris...

In this paper, we first use a fuzzy preference relation with a membership function representing preference degree forcomparing two interval-valued fuzzy numbers and then utilize a relative preference relation improved from the fuzzypreference relation to rank a set of interval-valued fuzzy numbers. Since the fuzzy preference relation is a total orderingrelation that satisfies reciprocal and tra...

The concept of L-fuzzy lattice is presented by means of an L-fuzzy partially ordered set. An L-fuzzy partially ordered set A is an L-fuzzy lattice if and only if one of A[a], A([a]), and A(a) is a lattice.