Title :
Why Intervals? Why Fuzzy Numbers? Towards a New Justification
Author :
Kreinovich, Vladik
Author_Institution :
Dept. of Comput. Sci., Texas Univ., El Paso, TX
Abstract :
The purpose of this paper is to present a new characterization of the not of all intervals (and of the corresponding set of fuzzy numbers). This characterization is based on several natural properties useful in mathematical modeling; the main of these properties is the necessity to be able to combine (fuse) several pieces of knowledge
Keywords :
fuzzy set theory; fuzzy numbers; fuzzy set; mathematical modeling; Computational intelligence; Instruments; Mathematical model; Measurement errors; Measurement standards; Measurement uncertainty; Peak to average power ratio; Temperature distribution; USA Councils; Upper bound;
Conference_Titel :
Foundations of Computational Intelligence, 2007. FOCI 2007. IEEE Symposium on
Conference_Location :
Honolulu, HI
Print_ISBN :
1-4244-0703-6
DOI :
10.1109/FOCI.2007.372156
