The comparison of protein structures is an important problem in bioinformatics. As a protein biological role is derived from its three dimensional native state, the comparison of a new protein structure (with unknown function) with other protein structures (with known biological activity) can shed light into the biological role of the former. Consequently, advances in the comparison (and cluste...

Words mean different things to different people, and so are uncertain. We, therefore, need a fuzzy set model for a word that has the potential to capture their uncertainties. In this paper I propose that an interval type-2 fuzzy set (IT2 FS) be used as a FS model of a word, because it is characterized by its footprint of uncertainty (FOU), and therefore has the potential to capture word uncerta...

A novel concept of quaternionic fuzzy sets (QFSs) is presented in this paper. QFSs are a generalization traditional and complex based on quaternions. The novelty that the range membership function set quaternions with modulus less than or equal to one, which real imaginary parts can be used for four different features. discussion made intuitive interpretation quaternion-valued grades possible a...

‎this paper deals with one problem that needs to be addressed in the emerging field known under the name computing with perceptions‎. ‎it is the problem of describing‎, ‎approximately‎, ‎a given fuzzy set in natural‎ ‎language‎. ‎this problem has lately been referred to as the problem of retranslation‎. ‎an approaches to ‎dealing with the retranslation problem is discussed in the paper‎, ‎that ...

while sophisticated analytical methods like morgenstern-price or finite elementmethods are available for more realistic analysis of stability of slopes, assessment of the exactvalues of soil parameters is practically impossible. uncertainty in the soil parameters arisesfrom two different sources: scatter in data and systematic error inherent in the estimate of soilproperties. hence, stability o...

In last years, a variety of papers on fuzzy sets and other fuzzy topics was concerned with set-algebraic operations for and properties of fuzzy sets. However, only few remarks are devoted to fuzzy cardinals. In classical set theory the cardinality of a set is a measure of its size or "power". In the fuzzy case one has to differentiate: there are measures of fuzziness and measures of power. Here...