Preface This special issue contains extended versions of selected papers presented at the International Con-(FCA) a forum to share innovative theories, methodologies, and applications in FCA and areas closely related to FCA such as data mining, information retrieval, knowledge management, data and knowledge engineering, logic, algebra, and lattice theory. The conference program included present...

We show that the lattice of all ideals of a ring $R$ can be embedded in the lattice of all its fuzzyideals in uncountably many ways. For this purpose, we introduce the concept of the generalizedcharacteristic function $chi _{s}^{r} (A)$ of a subset $A$ of a ring $R$ forfixed $r , sin [0,1] $ and show that $A$ is an ideal of $R$ if, and only if, its generalizedcharacteristic function $chi _{s}^{...

Given a nonempty set X, a fuzzy ideal I on X is a collection of subsets of X closed under finite union and subset operations. In this paper we define a space to be locally I fuzzy compact space if every point in the space has an I fuzzy compact neighbourhood. Basic results concerning locally I fuzzy compact spaces are given relating to subspaces, preservation of functions, and products. Classic...

Let $R$ be a commutative ring with identity and $M$ be an$R$-module. Let $FSpec(M)$ denotes the collection of all prime fuzzysubmodules of $M$. In this regards some basic properties of Zariskitopology on $FSpec(M)$ are investigated. In particular, we provesome equivalent conditions for irreducible subsets of thistopological space and it is shown under certain conditions$FSpec(M)$ is a $T_0-$spa...

Subsethood A ⊆ B and set equality A = B are among the basic notions of set theory. For traditional (“crisp”) sets, every element a either belongs to a set A or it does not belong to A, and for every two sets A and B, either A ⊆ B or A 6⊆ B. To describe commonsense and expert reasoning, it is advantageous to use fuzzy sets in which for each element a, there is a degree μA(a) ∈ [0, 1] to which a ...

Let G be an intuitionistic fuzzy graph. Let u and v be two vertices of G. A subset D of V is called a fuzzy equitable dominating set if every v ∈ V − Dthere exist a vertex u ∈ D such that uv ∈ E(G) and |deg(u) − deg(v)| = 1 where deg(u) denotes the degree of vertex u and deg(v) denotes the degree of vertex v and μ2(vi, vj ) = μ1(vi) ∧ μ1(vj ), γ2(vi, vj ) = γ1(vi) ∨ γ1(vj ). The minimum cardina...

In this paper we propose a definition of the cardinal of a finite fuzzy subset in an analogous situation to the crisp one where we know the relationship between the quantities of elements belonging to the subset and to the whole set.

Current work in modeling has focused on fuzziness as it applies to single entities. An application of fuzzy theory may be made to managing data sets and collections, thus treating the data sets as collection of fuzzy objects. The application of fuzzy theory to management of sets creates has not been fully explored. In the area of Geospatial Information Science (GIS), one can find many types of ...

The theory of fuzzy sets was inspired by Zadeh [10]. Subsequently, Rosenfeld introduced the concept of a fuzzy subgroup of a group [9]. Fuzzy cosets and fuzzy normal subgroups of a group G have been studied in [3, 5, 8]. In [4], the ring of cosets of a fuzzy ideal was constructed. Let A and B be fuzzy subgroups of G such that B ⊆ A. The purpose of this paper is to introduce the notion of fuzzy ...