Finding a product with high quality and reasonable price online is a difficult task due to the fuzzy nature of data and queries. In order to handle the fuzzy problem, a new type-2 fuzzy reasoning based decision support system, the Web Shopping Expert for online users is proposed. In the Web Shopping Expert, an interval type-2 fuzzy logic system is used and a fuzzy output can be obtained using t...

The purpose of the present work is to establish a one-to-one correspondence between the family of interval type-2 fuzzy reflexive/tolerance approximation spaces and the family of interval type-2 fuzzy closure spaces.

In this paper, a new way of optimizing fuzzy logic is introduced. This way is used to optimize the output of Interval Type-2 Fuzzy Logic controller by replacing the Defuzzification stage by the Optimization algorithm. The algorithm chooses the best crisp output variable from the type-reduced set which is the output of the Type-Reduction stage instead of averaging the set extremes which was perf...

AND ITS APPLICATION by YU QIU Under the Direction of Yanqing Zhang ABSTRACT In recent years, the type-2 fuzzy sets theory has been used to model and minimize the effects of uncertainties in rule-base fuzzy logic system. In order to make the type-2 fuzzy logic system reasonable and reliable, a new simple and novel statistical method to decide interval-valued fuzzy membership functions and a new ...

in this paper, we present a revised similarity measure based onchen-and-chen's similarity measure for fuzzy risk analysis. the revisedsimilarity measure uses the corrected formulae to calculate the centre ofgravity points, therefore it is more  effective than the chen-and-chen'smethod. the revised similarity measure can overcome the drawbacks of theexisting methods. we have also proposed a new ...

This paper describes an interval type-2 fuzzy modeling framework, reduced-set vector-based interval type-2 fuzzy neural network (RV-based IT2FNN), to characterize the representation in fuzzy logic inference procedure. The model proposed introduces the concept of interval kernel to interval type-2 fuzzy membership, and provides an architecure to extract reduced-set vectors for generating interva...

Planning resources for a supply chain is a major factor determining its success or failure. In this paper we build on previous work introducing an Interval Type-2 Fuzzy Logic model of a multiple echelon supply chain. It is believed that the additional degree of uncertainty provided by Interval Type-2 Fuzzy Logic will allow for better representation of the uncertainty and vagueness present in re...

I Acknowledgments IV List of Figures X List of Tables XIV List of Abbreviations XV Publications Arising from This Work XVIII Chapter 1: Introduction .................................................................................................. 1 1.1 Aims, Significance, Novelty ........................................................................... 6 1.1.1 Aims .............................