This paper is about mathematical foundational aspects of fuzzy theory for engineers who wish to take a serious look at fuzzy theory for significant applications. As a tool for modeling and reasoning, fuzzy theory has its own domain of applicability. We provide firm foundations for implementing fuzzy concepts and fuzzy rules, specify the domains where fuzzy theory is appropriate, show firm conne...

By Fuzzy theory we mean Zadeh’s mathematical theory of generalized sets and their associated logics. At this state of the art, fuzzy theory has provided significant contributions to artificial intelligence via a broader umbrella of soft computing. Like other theories of mathematics, such as number theory and potential theory, fuzzy theory has its own agenda, concepts, and techniques. However, j...

The starting point of this paper is given by Priestley’s papers, where a theory of representation of distributive lattices is presented. The purpose of this paper is to develop a representation theory of fuzzy distributive lattices in the finite case. In this way, some results of Priestley’s papers are extended. In the main theorem, we show that the category of finite fuzzy Priestley space...

Fuzzy numbers in number theory are a foundation of fuzzy sets and fuzzy mathematics that extend the domain of numbers from those of real numbers to fuzzy numbers. Fuzzy arithmetic is a system of fuzzy operations on fuzzy numbers. A theory of fuzzy arithmetic is presented towards a fuzzy mathematical structure for fuzzy inference and cognitive computation. The mathematical models of fuzzy number...