In the present paper a Korovkin-type theorem is proposed for the approximation operators defined by the inverse Ftransforms. These results allow us to choose between a variety of shapes to be used as atoms of the fuzzy partitions used within the F-transform’s framework. In this way we can enlarge considerably the class of F-transforms proposed recently by I. Perfilieva. The new fuzzy partitions...

In this paper, the texture feature ”coarseness” is modelled by means of a fuzzy partition on the domain of coarseness measures. The number of linguistic labels to be used, and the parameters of the membership functions associated to each fuzzy set are calculated relating representative coarseness measures (our reference set) with the human perception of this texture property. A wide variety of ...

The term approximate reasoning (AR) refers to methods and methodologies that enable reasoning with imprecise inputs to obtain meaningful outputs. AR schemes involving fuzzy sets are one of the best known applications of fuzzy logic in the wider sense. Fuzzy Inference Systems (FIS) have many degrees of freedom, viz., the underlying fuzzy partition of the input and output spaces, the fuzzy logic ...

In this paper we consider the theory of fuzzy logic programming without negation. Our results cover logical systems with a wide variety of connectives ranging from t-norm and conorms, through conjunctors and disjunctors and their residuals to aggregation operators. Rules of our programs are many valued implications. We emphasize, that in contrast to other approaches, our logic is truth function...

With the capability of dealing with vague and incomplete data, the study of fuzzy time series has attracted great interest and is expected to expand rapidly. Song and Chissom (1993) first proposed the seven-step forecasting framework of fuzzy time series which are composed of (1) definition of the universe of discourse, (2) partitioning of the universe of discourse, (3) definition of fuzzy sets...

Continuous advancement of information technology is looking for more generalized and specific database definition that could make possible the storage, retrieval and manipulation of multiple, different variety of imprecise, ambiguous, and incomplete complex information in the form of data. To explore such databases, researchers’ blends the concept of database with object oriented modeling and f...

In nature as well as otherwise there are what we can call deterministic and non-deterministic phenomena. Non-deterministic ones attract more challenges in scientific study. When the patterns of occurrence of non-deterministic phenomena are stable in their occurrence, their study was taken up in statistics. However, in real world, there is a large variety of vague phenomena, imprecise concepts a...

A wide variety of knowledge acquisition methods exist for conventional knowledge types such as production rule, semantic knowledge, etc. However, need for causal knowledge acquisition has not been stressed in the expert systems fields. The objectives of this paper are to (1) suggest a causal knowledge acquisition process and (2) investigate the causal knowledge-based inference process. FCM (Fuz...

An important limitation of fuzzy integrals for information fusion is the exponential growth of coefficients for an increasing number of information sources. To overcome this problem a variety of fuzzy measure identification algorithms has been proposed. HLMS is a simple gradient-based algorithm for fuzzy measure identification which suffers from some convergence problems. In this paper, two pro...