The Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC) Geography Markup Language (GML) explicitly represents geographical spatial knowledge in text mode. All kinds of fuzzy problems will inevitably be encountered in spatial knowledge expression. Especially for those expressions in text mode, this fuzziness will be broader. Describing and representing fuzziness in GML seems necessary. Three kinds of fuzziness in ...

The aim of this paper is to introduce a novel two-step Fuzzy Rule Interpolation Technique (FRIT) “VEIN”, based on the concept of Vague Environment. The strength of FRIT against classical fuzzy reasoning methods is the ability of gaining conclusion even in case where the knowledge is represented by sparse fuzzy rule bases. The FRIT “VEIN” introduced in this paper is following the structure the G...

In most statistical analysis, inequality or extent of variation in income isrepresented in terms of certain summary measures. But some authors arguedthat the concept of inequality is vague and thus cannot be measured as anexact concept. Therefore, fuzzy set theory provides naturally a useful toolfor such circumstances. In this paper we have introduced a real-valued fuzzymethod of illustrating t...

fuzzy control systems have had various applications in a wide range of science and engineering in recent years. since an unstable control system is typically useless and potentially dangerous, stability is the most important requirement for any control system (including fuzzy control system). conceptually, there are two types of stability for control systems: lyapunov stability (a special case ...

To each fuzzy subgroup a fuzzy equivalence relation is associated and it is proved that a fuzzy subgroup is normal if and only if the operation of the group is compatible with its associated fuzzy equivalence relation. In the de-nition of fuzzy subgroup only the subset is fuzzy whilst the group operation remains crisp. In an opposite direction, another structure can be constructed maintaining c...

in some quality control applications, the quality of a process or a product is described by the relationship between a response variable and one or more explanatory variables, called a profile. moreover, in most practical applications, the qualitative characteristic of a product/service is vague, uncertain and linguistic and cannot be precisely stated. the purpose of this paper is to propose a ...

Semantic web, also known as next generation web, aims to provide context based information and services to the user. Although, ontologies play key role in implementation and exploitation of semantic web, however these fail to handle imprecision and uncertainty involved in user requests. Fuzzy logic provides a means to overcome the mentioned shortcoming and hence handles imprecise and vague know...

Ontologies have been employed in several applications regarding knowledge representation, aiming to represent data semantics and support reasoning tasks. However, traditional ontologies are less suitable to represent some domains that require the representation of vague or imprecise information, which often occurs in human language. In order to handle such restriction, it is necessary to extend...

In real applications, information is often imprecise and vague. Exact information has become an essential part of modern database applications for making next generation information systems more human friendly. Fuzzy techniques have been widely used to represent such vague information in various database models and theories. Because of the efficiency of object oriented databases in handling com...

Many real world systems and applications must deal with imprecise or vague data. For such systems, information management components are needed that provide support for managing this imprecise data. Fuzzy theory allows us to model imprecise or vague data. The use of fuzzy theory also allows us to model vague knowledge. There have been several proposals for extending relational database systems ...