In (Fuzzy Sets and Systems 97 (1998) 33), we presented a fuzzy multipurpose decision making model integrating di4erent preference representations based on additive reciprocal fuzzy preference relations. The main aim of this paper is to complete the decision model studying conditions under which reciprocity property is maintained when aggregating preference relations using an OWA operator guided...

the aim of this paper is to initiate and investigate new soft sets over semihypergroups, named special soft sets and transitive soft sets and denoted by $s_{h}$ and  $t_{h},$ respectively. it is shown that $t_{h}=s_{h}$ if and only if $beta=beta^{*}.$ we also introduce the derived semihypergroup from a special soft set and study some properties of this class of semihypergroups.

Our interest in this paper is to define and study the concept of a fuzzy hypergroup, which depends on the concept of a fuzzy space. Indeed, the paper is a continuation of ideas presented by Davvaz [Fuzzy Sets and Systems, 101 (1999) 191-195]. A relation between a fuzzy hypergroup based on a fuzzy space and a fuzzy hypergroup in the sense of Davvaz is obtained 2010 AMS Classification: 20N20

Using mid-infrared and radio criteria, we select a sample of candidate z ∼ 2 obscured quasars. Optical spectroscopy confirms about half of these as type-2 quasars, and modelling the population suggests 50-80% of the quasars are obscured. We find some flat radio spectrum type-2 quasars, and tentative evidence for obscuration unrelated to the torus. Using a similar sample, we also find evidence f...

T is my great pleasure to welcome you to the inaugural I issue of the IEEE TRANSACTIONS ON FUZZY SYSTEMS. Many of you are probably quite familiar with the basic ideas underlying fuzzy sets and systems that utilize fuzzy models. However, there will also be readers who are looking at the contents of this issue, wondering what it’s all about. For this latter group, the papers in this first issue m...

The concepts of fuzzy e-open sets and fuzzy e-continuous are introduced and studied in fuzzifying topology and by making use of these concepts, we introduce and study T e 0 -, R e 0-, T e 1 -, R e 1-, T e 2 -, T e 3 -, T e 4 -, strong T e 3 and strong T e 4 separation axioms in fuzzifying topology and give some of their characterizations as well as the relations of these axioms and other separa...

Let X be a Banach space, C a closed subset of X , and T : C -+ C a nonexpansive mapping. Conditions are given which assure that if the fixed point set F ( T ) of T has nonempty interior then the Picard iterates of the mapping T always converge to a point of F ( T ) . If T is asymptotically regular, it suffices to assume that the closed subsets of X are densely proximinal and that nested spheres...

Let (S,Σ , μ) be a complete positive σ -finite measure space and let X be a Banach space. We are concerned with the proximinality problem for the best simultaneous approximations to two functions in L p(S,Σ , X). Let Σ0 be a sub-σ -algebra of Σ and Y a nonempty locally weakly compact convex subset of X such that span Y and its dual have the Radon–Nikodym property. We prove that L p(S,Σ0, Y ) is...

In this paper we associate the three concepts of language, thinking, and meaning with Fuzzy Sets and Systems and Fuzzy Logic. We present some developments in 20 th century history of science and of humanities that show deep links between these concepts and we give a proposal for a fuzzy theoretical interpretation of what is meaning.

Recently, Vemuri and Jayaram proposed a novel method of generating fuzzy implications from a given pair of fuzzy implications. Viewing this as a binary operation ~ on the set I of all fuzzy implications they obtained, for the first time, a monoid structure (I,~) on the set I. Some algebraic aspects of (I,~) had already been explored and hitherto unknown representation results for the Yager’s fa...