In many real decision situations, for each of the alternatives, we only have fuzzy information about the consequences of each action. This fuzzy information can be described by a fuzzy number, i.e., by a membership function with a single local maximum, or it can be described by a more complex fuzzy set, with several local maxima. We show that, from the viewpoint of decision making, it is suffic...

Self-organized maps (SOM) have been applied to analyze the similarities of chemical compounds and to select from a given pool of descriptors the smallest and more relevant subset needed to build robust QSAR models based on fuzzy ARTMAP. First, the category maps for each molecular descriptor and for the target activity variable were created with SOM and then classified on the basis of topology a...

Solving systems of equations (even linear ones) in standard fuzzy arithmetic may be a problem. We suggest an alternative approach which transfers the task to a linear space where the solution may be standard. Fuzzy intervals form a proper subset (in fact, a cone) in this linear space.

This paper studies T -preorders by using their Representation Theorem that states that every T -preorder on a set X can be generated in a natural way by a family of fuzzy subsets of X . Especial emphasis is made on the study of onedimensional T -preorders (i.e.: T -preorders that can be generated by only one fuzzy subset). Strong complete T -preorders are characterized.

How to approximate an arbitrary fuzzy subset by an adequate extensional one is a key question within the theory of Extensional Fuzzy Subsets. In a recent paper by the authors [19] different methods were provided to find good approximations. In this work these methods are compared in order to understand better the performance and improvement they give.

Intuitionistic Fuzzy Sets (IFS) are defined as pairs of mutually orthogonal fuzzy sets. We discuss this approach from an algebraic point of view. As a result we characterize two implication operators on the collection of IFS, which on a particular subset of IFS behave as a Lukasiewicz and a Gödel implication.

The objective of this study is to investigate the fuzzy subhypernear-modules over hypernear-ring by using a triangular norm, which T-fuzzy are generalization submodules hyper near-modules, and some related properties discussed. Idempotent subhypernear-module hypernear-module suggested. relation between level subset presented. Also, image inverse under mapping introduced. direct product i...

Since Lotfi A. Zadeh introduced the concept of fuzzy sets in 1965, many authors have devoted their efforts to the study of these new sets, both from a theoretical and applied point of view. Fuzzy sets were later extended in order to get more adequate and flexible models of inference processes, where uncertainty, imprecision or vagueness is present. Type 2 fuzzy sets comprise one of such extensi...

The important growth of available multimedia information shows the limits of traditional information retrieval systems. In this paper, we describe the design of a metadata engine dedicated to retrieve annotated images using meta-information, and part of the more general MediaSys Image Search Engine. As a case study, we use medicinal plant images and their detailed description. We propose a flex...

Using the rapid growth of computational biology and e-commerce applications, high-dimensional data becomes usual. Thus, mining high dimensional data is an urgent problem of great practical importance. Within the high dimensional data the dimensional reduction is a vital factor, to the purpose the clustering based feature subset selection algorithm is proposed in this particular paper. The chara...