Representation of features of items and user feedback, and reasoning about their relationships are major problems in recommender systems. This is because item features and user feedback are subjective, imprecise and vague. The paper presents a fuzzy set theoretic method (FTM) for recommender systems that handles the non-stochastic uncertainty induced from subjectivity, vagueness and imprecision...

The concept of entropy of a discrete fuzzy measure has been recently introduced in two different ways. A first definition was proposed by Marichal [10] in the aggregation framework, and a second one by Yager [25] in the framework of uncertain variables. We present a comparative study between these two proposals and point out their properties. We also propose a definition for the entropy of an o...

Recently, Yager in the article “On some new classes of implication operators and their role in approximate reasoning” [12] has introduced two new classes of fuzzy implications called the f -generated and g-generated implications. Along similar lines, one of us has proposed another class of fuzzy implications called the h-generated implications. In this article we discuss in detail some properti...

Yager et al. first introduce compensatory operators. This paper further introduces a kind of weighted compensatory operators, and a kind of prioritised compensatory operators. The difference between these similar classes of operators are identified. In addition, the paper introduces the concepts of ordered weighted/prioritised compensatory aggregation. Keywords—Compensatory aggregation, weight,...

In recent years, agriculture has become the prime polluter of natural resources. It is therefore essential to make assessments based on reliable indicators to ensure that an agricultural system remains not only productive, but also ecologically sound. A large area of arable land in Guilan province is devoted to rice cultivation so the transition to environmentally sound agricultural practice in...

2 Zadeh-type fuzzy probability The paper deals with two methods of a fuzzification of the Borel field of events and too the probability measure. The first approach generalizes the Zadeh definition of a crisp probability of fuzzy event. The second method is based on the Yager definition of a fuzzy probability of fuzzy event. The theoretical results obtained can be applied to modeling stochastic ...

968 A Fuzzy Residual Network Approach to Minimum Cost Flow Problem with Fuzzy Parameters M. Bagherian Department of Applied Mathematics, Faculty of Mathematical Science, University of Guilan, Rasht, Iran. [email protected] . ABSTRACT The Minimum Cost Flow (MCF) problem has been defined as to determine a least cost shipment of a commodity through a network in order to satisfy demands at ce...

The prioritized weighted average (PWA) operator was originally introduced by Yager. The prominent characteristic of the PWA operator is that it takes into account prioritization among attributes and decision makers. Motivated by the idea of PWA operator, we develop some prioritized weighted aggregation operators for aggregating trapezoid fuzzy linguistic information. The properties of the new a...

Fatty liver disease (FLD) is reversible disease and can be treated, if it is identified at an early stage. However, if diagnosed at the later stage, it can progress to an advanced liver disease such as cirrhosis which may ultimately lead to death. Therefore, it is essential to detect it at an early stage before the disease progresses to an irreversible stage. Several non-invasive computer-aided...