the aim of this paper is to introduce the concepts of fuzzy upper and fuzzy lower almost continuous, weakly continuous and almost weakly continuous multifunctions. several characterizations and properties of these multifunctions along with their mutual relationships are established in $l$-fuzzy topological spaces

For an upper semi-continuous set-valued mapping from one topological space to another and for a lower semi-continuous function defined on the product of these spaces, Berge’s theorem states lower semi-continuity of the minimum of this function taken over the image sets. It assumes that the image sets are compact. For Hausdorff topological spaces, this paper extends Berge’s theorem to set-valued...

In this paper we show that an inverse limit is 1-dimensional whenever the bonding functions are upper semi-continuous from [0, 1] into C([0, 1]) and dim(G(fi ◦ fi+1 ◦ · · · ◦ fj)) = 1 for all integers i and j, 1 ≤ i ≤ j. We apply this result to show that such an inverse limit is treelike and also to show that unions of certain finite collections of interval-valued upper semi-continuous function...

Optimum design of structures is achieved while the design variables are continuous and discrete. To reduce the computational work involved in the optimization process, all the functions that are expensive to evaluate, are approximated. To approximate these functions, a semi quadratic function is employed. Only the diagonal terms of the Hessian matrix are used and these elements are estimated fr...

A semi-continuous segmental probability model, which can be considered as a special form of continuous mixture segmental probability model with continuous output probability density functions sharing in a mixture Gaussian density codebook, is proposed in this paper. The amount of training data required, as well as the computational complexity of the semi-continuous segmental probability model(S...

Ever since the introduction of fuzzy sets by L. A. Zadeh [14], the fuzzy concept has invaded almost all branches of Mathematics. The concept of fuzzy topological space was introduced and developed by C.L. Chang [3] and since then many fuzzy topologists [1,6-13] have extended various notions in classical topology to fuzzy topological spaces. The concept of somewhat continuous functions was intro...

In this article we define the inverse limit of an inverse sequence (X1, f1), (X2, f2), (X3, f3), . . . where each Xi is a compact Hausdorff space and each fi is an upper semi-continuous function from Xi+1 into 2i . Conditions are given under which the inverse limit is a Hausdorff continuum and examples are given to illustrate the nature of these inverse limits.