We introduce a property of set to represent vagueness without using truth value. It has gotten less attention in fuzzy set theory. We introduce it by analyzing a well-known philosophical argument by Gearth Evans. To interpret ‘a is a vague object’ as ‘the Axiom of Extensionality is violated for a’ allows us to represent a vague object in Evans’s sense, even within classical logic, and of course...

In the present paper, we analyze the vague reliability of k-out-of-n : G system (particularly, series and parallel system) with independent and non-identically distributed components, where the reliability of the components are unknown. The reliability of each component has been estimated using statistical confidence interval approach. Then we converted these statistical confidence interval int...

Acquiring precise data is expensive. Hence, there is interest in the development of computer algorithms that make full use of imprecise data, even though these new algorithms may be more complex and require more resources. In particular, most Genetic Fuzzy Systems (GFS). accept crisp inputs, but changes can be effected to them so that rules are obtained from vague data. Furthermore, the rule ge...

Fuzzy sets are a popular tool to model vague properties. It is, however, well-known that this model usually involves a good degree of arbitrariness. In this contribution we consider the possibility of standardising the construction of fuzzy sets at least with regard to the borderline cases. To this end, we identify a vague property with the sets of clearly positive cases and clearly negative ca...

Constraint programmingmodels appear inmany sciences includingmathematics, engineering and physics. These problems aim at optimizing a cost function joint with some constraints. Fuzzy constraint programming has been developed for treating uncertainty in the setting of optimization problems with vague constraints. In this paper, a new method is presented into creation fuzzy concept for set of con...

Fuzzy sets are widely used to model vague properties. According to a common understanding, a fuzzy set represents the degrees of similarity of precisely specified objects with the prototypes of the considered vague property. We propose a logic based on this idea, using an entailment relation which was introduced in a work of Dubois, Prade, Esteva, Garcia, and Godo. The logic allows reasoning ab...

Ontologies have proved to be very useful in sharing concepts across applications in an unambiguous way. Nowadays, in ontology-based applications information is often vague and imprecise. This is a well-known problem especially for semantics-based applications, such as e-commerce, knowledge management, web portals, etc. In computer-aided reasoning, the predominant paradigm to manage vague knowle...

The traveling salesman problem (TSP) is one of the most intensively studied problems in computational mathematics. Information about real life systems is often available in the form of vague descriptions. Hence, fuzzy methods are designed to handle vague terms, and are most suited to finding optimal solutions to problems with vague parameters. This study develops a fuzzy multi-objective linear ...