In this paper, a subtractive relational fuzzy c-medoids clustering approach is discussed to identify web user session clusters from weblogs, based on their browsing behavior. In this approach, the internal arrangement of data along with the density of pairwise dissimilarity values is favored over arbitrary starting estimations of medoids as done in the conventional relational fuzzy c-medoids al...

Katsaras 1 defined a fuzzy norm on a vector space to construct a fuzzy vector topological structure on the space. Some mathematicians have defined fuzzy norms on a vector space from various points of view 2–4 . In particular, Bag and Samanta 5 , following Cheng and Mordeson 6 , gave an idea of fuzzy norm in such a manner that the corresponding fuzzy metric is of Kramosil and Michálek type 7 . T...

Many real world systems and applications must deal with imprecise or vague data. For such systems, information management components are needed that provide support for managing this imprecise data. Fuzzy theory allows us to model imprecise or vague data. The use of fuzzy theory also allows us to model vague knowledge. There have been several proposals for extending relational database systems ...

Most of the researches in the domain of fuzzy number comparisons serve the fuzzy number ordering purpose. For making a comparison between two fuzzy numbers, beyond the determination of their order, it is needed to derive the magnitude of their order. In line with this idea, the concept of inequality is no longer crisp however it becomes fuzzy in the sense of representing partial belonging or de...

In this paper we show that the problem of minimizing a nonlinear objective function subject to a system of fuzzy relational equations with max-min composition can be reduced to a 0-1 mixed integer programming problem. The reduction method can be extended to the case of fuzzy relational equations with max-T composition as well as those with more general composition.

In this paper we rst summarize t he more important aspects of a Logic Fuzzy Relational Database and w e s h ow h ow a fuzzy relational database can be representedand h andled using rst order logic. Given that t he results obtained for fuzzy databasesare satisfactory, we are tackling now t he problem of uncertain fuzzy databases considering that t he fuzzy values stored in the d a tabase are att...

Project selection is considered as an important problem in project management. It is multi-criteria in nature and is based on various quantitative and qualitative factors. The main purpose of this paper is to present a new rank-based method for project selection in outranking relation. According to this approach, decision alternatives were clustered in the concordance matrix and the discordance...