We present a family of algebraic structures, called rectangular bilattices, which serve as a natural accommodation and powerful generalization to both intuitionistic fuzzy sets (IFSs) and interval-valued fuzzy sets (IVFSs). These structures are useful on one hand to clarify the exact nature of the relationship between the above two common extensions of fuzzy sets, and on the other hand provide ...

The intuitionistic linguistic set (ILS) is an extension of linguisitc variable. To overcome the drawback of using single real number to represent membership degree and non-membership degree for ILS, the concept of interval-valued intuitionistic linguistic set (IVILS) is introduced through representing the membership degree and non-membership degree with intervals for ILS in this paper. The oper...

Mathematical morphology (MM) offers a wide range of tools for image processing and computer vision. MM was originally conceived for the processing of binary images and later extended to gray-scale morphology. Extensions of classical binary morphology to gray-scale morphology include approaches based on fuzzy set theory that give rise to fuzzy mathematical morphology (FMM). From a mathematical p...

The necessity of dealing with uncertainty in real wold problems has been a long-term research challenge that has originated different methodologies and theories. Fuzzy sets along with their extensions such as, type-2 fuzzy sets, interval valued fuzzy sets, Atanassov’s intuitionistic fuzzy sets, etc., have provided a wide range of tools able to deal with uncertainty in different type of problems...

A new concept of the inclusion measure for intuitionistic fuzzy sets is proposed by the axiomatic definition. Also, the distance measures, similarity measures and information entropy are recalled and summarized. Most of important, some relationships among distance measure, information entropy, and inclusion measure of IFSs are then investigated. Finally, we obtain some important theorems by whi...

The entropy of intuitionistic fuzzy sets is used to indicate the degree of fuzziness of an interval-valued intuitionistic fuzzy set(IvIFS). In this paper, we deal with the entropies of IvIFSs. Firstly, we propose a set of entropies on IvIFSs with a parameter λ ∈ [0,+∞), which generalizes the entropy measure defined by Gao, for IvIFSs, and then we prove that the new entropy is an increasing func...