The goal of this paper is to consider properties of the composition of interval-valued fuzzy relations which were introduced by L.A. Zadeh in 1975. Fuzzy set theory turned out to be a useful tool to describe situations in which the data are imprecise or vague. Interval-valued fuzzy set theory is a generalization of fuzzy set theory which was introduced also by Zadeh in 1965. This paper generali...

The paper deals with the well-known notion of (dis)similarity measures between fuzzy sets. We provide three separate lists of axioms that fit with the respective notions of “general comparison measure”, “similarity measure” and “dissimilarity measure”. Then we review some of the most important axiomatic definitions of (dis)similarity measures in the literature, by referring to the axioms in tho...

Similarity measures of intuitionistic fuzzy sets are used to indicate the similarity degree between intuitionistic fuzzy sets. Although several similarity measures for intuitionistic fuzzy sets have been proposed in previous studies, no one has considered the use of the Sugeno integral to define them. Since the Sugeno integral provides an expected-value-like operation, it can be a useful tool i...

Many approaches have been developed for academic performance evaluation using various fuzzy techniques. Initial methods rely greatly on experts’ specification of analytical parameters, without making use of valuable information embedded in collected data. Given this insight, fuzzy rule induction has recently been studied as a data-driven alternative. Despite its efficiency and reported performa...

In this paper, we investigate the technique for clustering objects with intuitionistic fuzzy information. We first propose a formula to derive the intuitionistic fuzzy similarity degree between two intuitionistic fuzzy sets and develop an approach to constructing an intuitionistic fuzzy similarity matrix. Then, we present a netting method to make clustering analysis of intuitionistic fuzzy sets...

We outline DL-Media, an ontology mediated multimedia information retrieval system, which combines logic-based retrieval with multimedia featurebased similarity retrieval. An ontology layer is used to define (in terms of a fuzzy DLR-Lite like description logic) the relevant abstract concepts and relations of the application domain, while a content-based multimedia retrieval system is used for fe...

This paper presents a study on the modeling of fuzzy topological relations between uncertain objects in Geographic Information Systems (GIS). Based on the recently developed concept of computational fuzzy topological space, topological relations between simple fuzzy spatial objects are modeled. The fuzzy spatial objects here cover simple fuzzy region, simple fuzzy line segment and fuzzy point. ...

It is well known fact that binary relations are generalized mathematical functions. Contrary to functions from domain to range, binary relations may assign to each element of domain two or more elements of range. Some basic operations on functions such as the inverse and composition are applicable to binary relations as well. Depending on the domain or range or both are fuzzy value fuzzy set, i...

a new approach to define the similarity measure betweeninterval-valued fuzzy sets is presented. the proposed approach isbased on a weighted measure in which the normalized similaritiesbetween lower functions and also between upper functions arecombined by a weight parameter. the properties of this similaritymeasure are investigated. it is shown that, the proposed measurehas some advantages in c...

this study is an investigation of fuzzy linear regression model for crisp/fuzzy input and fuzzy output data. a least absolutes deviations approach to construct such a model is developed by introducing and applying a new metric on the space of fuzzy numbers. the proposed approach, which can deal with both symmetric and non-symmetric fuzzy observations, is compared with several existing models by...