s 107 ultimate moment); and productivity Ip = (/mat + /man + It)/Iman. Practically, for the fuzzification process (/mat, Ir,a,, It, and Ia are interpreted as fuzzy goals and Isi and Ip as fuzzy constraints), an exponential membership function lk = e -klxl (where k is the importance coefficient) is proposed. Thus by this procedure, the optimal investment is alternative a3, and the hierarchizatio...

Our purpose is to provide a set-theoretical frame to clustering fuzzy relational data basically based on the cardinality of the fuzzy subsets and their complementaries that represent the objects under study, without applying any crisp property when the various elements that compose the process are fuzzified. From this perspective we define a family of fuzzy similarity indexes which includes a s...

minkowski type inequalities for the seminormed fuzzy integrals on abstract spaces are studied in a rather general form. also related inequalities to minkowski type inequality for the seminormed fuzzy integrals on abstract spaces are studied. several examples are given to illustrate the validity of theorems. some results on chebyshev and minkowski type inequalities are obtained.

Attribute-oriented induction is a useful technique that summarizes data of relatively-low values with higher-level concepts. In a large database, it is always beneficial to describe generalized knowledge, rather than lower levels of abstraction. In this paper we modify the concept of AOI and we apply it on a fuzzy relational database. Following the concept proposed by Chen et al. [1] to mine ge...

We present a simple framework which enables us to consider the well-known sup-t-norm and inf-residuum products of relations as two particular cases of a single, more general type of product. We present basic properties of the framework and consequences for the theory of fuzzy relations. Informally, the paper implies that in many cases of fuzzy relational modeling, such as in solving fuzzy relat...

We interpret fuzzy linear programming (FLP) problems (where some or all coefficients can be fuzzy sets and the inequality relations between fuzzy sets can be given by a certain fuzzy relation) as multiple fuzzy reasoning schemes (MFR), where the antecedents of the scheme correspond to the constraints of the FLP problem and the fact of the scheme is the objective of the FLP problem. Then the sol...

This paper is concerned with stabilization for a class of Takagi-Sugeno fuzzy neural networks (TSFNNs) with time-varying delays. An impulsive control scheme is employed to stabilize a TSFNN. We firstly establish the model of TSFNNs by using fuzzy sets and fuzzy reasoning and propose the problem of impulsive stabilization for this model. Then, we present several stabilization conditions based on...

Proportional-integral-derivative (PID) structured controller is the most popular class of industrial control but still could not be appropriately exploited in fuzzy systems. To gain the practicability and tractability of fuzzy systems, this paper develops a parameterized bilinear matrix inequality characterization for the H∞ fuzzy PID control design, which is then relaxed into a bilinear matrix...

The paper deals with the problem of nonlinear fuzzy observers for a class of continuous-time nonlinear systems, represented by Takagi-Sugeno models with local nonlinear terms. On the basis of the Lyapunov stability criterion and incremental quadratic inequalities, the sufficient LMI design conditions are outlined. Numerical example is given to illustrate the procedure and to validate the perfor...

This paper studies fuzzy filtering design for state estimation of nonlinear discrete-time systems with bounded but unknown disturbances. First, the Takagi and Sugeno fuzzy model is proposed to represent a nonlinear system. Next, using a linear matrix inequality (LMI) approach, the fuzzy filtering problems are characterized in terms of a linear matrix inequality problem (LMIP). The LMIP can be e...