Many applications e.g. in approximate reasoning, data summarisation, information retrieval etc. can profit from the use of fuzzy quantifiers like “almost all” or “many”, which provide flexible means of information aggregation, and are capable of extracting meaningful linguistic summaries from large amounts of raw data. However, as will be shown by a number of counterexamples, existing approache...

Given a finite totally ordered set of linguistic terms, the operations intersection and connected union provide a lattice structure to the set of hesitant fuzzy linguistic term sets. In this framework, hesitant fuzzy linguistic descriptions of a given set of alternatives are considered. A distance between hesitant fuzzy linguistic descriptions is introduced based on the properties of the lattic...

The paper introduces fuzzy linguistic logic programming, which is a combination of fuzzy logic programming, introduced by P. Vojtáš, and hedge algebras in order to facilitate the representation and reasoning on human knowledge expressed in natural languages. In fuzzy linguistic logic programming, truth values are linguistic ones, e.g., VeryTrue, VeryProbablyTrue, and LittleFalse, taken from a h...

To address the hesitancy, inconsistency and uncertainty of decision makers’ cognitions, linguistic interval hesitant fuzzy sets (LIHFSs) are efficient tools. This paper focuses on studying the application of LIHFSs. To do this, two correlation coefficients of LIHFSs are defined, which needn't consider the length of elements in LIHFSs or the arrangement of their possible interval values. To addr...

A neuro-fuzzy system for character recognition using a fuzzy Hough transform technique is presented in this paper. For each character pattern, membership values are determined for a number of fuzzy sets defined on the standard Hough transform accumulator cells. These basic fuzzy sets are combined by t-norms to synthesize additional fuzzy sets whose heights form an ndimensional feature vector fo...

An evaluation methodology based on fuzzy computing with words aimed at measuring the information quality of Web sites containing documents is presented. This methodology is qualitative and user oriented because it generates linguistic recommendations on the information quality of the content-based Web sites based on users' perceptions. It is composed of two main components , an evaluation schem...

We study different approaches for decision making with linguistic information. We describe some basic linguistic aggregation operators. We then analyze the problem of linguistic decision making with Dempster-Shafer (D-S) belief structure. We suggest the use of different types of linguistic aggregation operators in the D-S framework such as the linguistic ordered weighted averaging (LOWA) operat...

The paper deals with an idea of a linguistic knowledge representation and a linguistic inference. Relational linguistic fuzzy model with weights of rules is utilising. The probability of linguistic values of antecedent and consequent variables, calculated according to Zadeh’s definition, is proposed to formulate a linguistic fuzzy model of a stochastic system. The linguistic inference procedure...

Several fuzzy connectives, including those proposed by Lotfi Zadeh, can be seen as linear extensions of the Boolean connectives from the scale ${0,1}$ into the scale $[0,1]$. We discuss these extensions, in particular, we focus on the dualities arising from the Boolean dualities. These dualities allow to transfer the results from some particular class of extended Boolean functions, e.g., from c...

Complex fuzzy sets (CFSs) are a suitable tool to manage spatial directional information which includes distance and direction. However, is given by linguistic values. It very awkward for the CFS describe this type of information. To overcome limitation, we first propose novel concept called complex set (LCFS) serve as an extension CFS. Then put forward some basic operational laws LCFSs. After t...