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On answering the question “Where do I start in order to solve a new problem involving interval type-2 fuzzy sets?”. (English) Zbl 1193.68249

Summary: This paper, which is tutorial in nature, demonstrates how the Embedded Sets Representation Theorem (RT) for a general type-2 fuzzy set (T2 FS), when specialized to an interval (I)T2 FS, can be used as the starting point to solve many diverse problems that involve IT2 FSs. The problems considered are: set theoretic operations, centroid, uncertainty measures, similarity, inference engine computations for Mamdani IT2 fuzzy logic systems, linguistic weighted average, person membership function approach to type-2 fuzzistics, and Interval Approach to type-2 fuzzistics. Each solution obtained from the RT is a structural solution but is not a practical computational solution, however, the latter are always found from the former. It is this author’s recommendation that one should use the RT as a starting point whenever solving a new problem involving IT2 FSs because it has had such great success in solving so many such problems in the past, and it answers the question “Where do I start in order to solve a new problem involving IT2 FSs?”

MSC:

68T37 Reasoning under uncertainty in the context of artificial intelligence
03E72 Theory of fuzzy sets, etc.
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