• DocumentCode
    2139461
  • Title

    Fuzzy structured concepts and typicality of their instances

  • Author

    Arigoni, Anio O. ; Rossi, Andrea

  • Author_Institution
    Dept. of Math., Bologna Univ., Italy
  • fYear
    1993
  • fDate
    1993
  • Firstpage
    1309
  • Abstract
    Concepts are considered as ideas underlying categories of objects. Their fuzziness is a matter of graduality of membership-that is, the extent to which an object belongs to the relative categories. However, several scholars reported that the operations defined on fuzzy set theory give contradictory and/or false results, when interpreted as operations on concepts. A mechanism is derived in which semantic aspects are considered in addition to formal aspects. Through this mechanism, the dynamics of the membership function of every object that follows inclusions within concepts are illustrated. The use of the same mechanism is also possible for other operations and the results seem to comply with the requirements indicated by cognitive psychologists satisfactorily
  • Keywords
    fuzzy logic; fuzzy set theory; semantic networks; fuzziness; fuzzy set theory; graduality; membership; membership function; semantic aspects; Artificial intelligence; Fasteners; Fuzzy set theory; Fuzzy sets; Humans; Information analysis; Mathematics; Psychology;
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Publisher
    ieee
  • Conference_Titel
    Fuzzy Systems, 1993., Second IEEE International Conference on
  • Conference_Location
    San Francisco, CA
  • Print_ISBN
    0-7803-0614-7
  • Type

    conf

  • DOI
    10.1109/FUZZY.1993.327582
  • Filename
    327582