Title : 
A normal form which preserves 1-tautologies and 0-contradictions in a class of residuum-based propositional fuzzy logics
         
        
            Author : 
Bedregal, Benjamín René Callejas ; Santiago, Regivan Hugo Nunes ; De Paula Canuto, Anne Magály
         
        
            Author_Institution : 
Dept. of Inf. & Appl. Math., Univ. Fed. do Rio Grande do Norte, Natal, Brazil
         
        
        
        
        
        
            Abstract : 
The most normal forms for fuzzy logics are versions of conjunctive and disjunctive classical normal forms. Unfortunately, they do not preserve neither 1-tautologies nor 0-contradictions. This paper introduces a normal form that partially preserves 1-tautologies for any continuous t-norm - i.e. if a formula is a 1-tautology then their normal form is also a 1-tautology but the reciprocal does not always hold. For the class of t-norms without zero divisors it preserves 0-contradictions, i.e. a formula is 0-contradiction if and only if their normal form is also 0-contradiction. The paper shows that this normal form could be used to implement an automatic theorem provers for a class of residuum-based propositional fuzzy logics.
         
        
            Keywords : 
fuzzy logic; fuzzy set theory; theorem proving; 0-contradictions; 1-tautologies; automatic theorem provers; conjunctive normal forms; disjunctive classical normal forms; residuum based propositional fuzzy logics; t-norms; zero divisors; Computational intelligence; Extraterrestrial measurements; Fuzzy logic; Informatics; Laboratories; Mathematics;
         
        
        
        
            Conference_Titel : 
Fuzzy Systems, 2004. Proceedings. 2004 IEEE International Conference on
         
        
        
            Print_ISBN : 
0-7803-8353-2
         
        
        
            DOI : 
10.1109/FUZZY.2004.1375473