Type-2 Fuzzistics for Symmetric Interval Type-2 Fuzzy Sets: Part 1, Forward Problems
Mendel, J.M.
Hongwei Wu
Dept. of Electr. Eng., Univ. of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA;
This paper appears in: Fuzzy Systems, IEEE Transactions on
Publication Date: Dec. 2006
Volume: 14,
Issue: 6
On page(s): 781-792
ISSN: 1063-6706
INSPEC Accession Number: 9208160
Digital Object Identifier: 10.1109/TFUZZ.2006.881441
Current Version Published: 2006-11-30
Abstract
Interval type-2 fuzzy sets (T2 FS) play a central role in fuzzy sets as models for words and in engineering applications of T2 FSs. These fuzzy sets are characterized by their footprints of uncertainty (FOU), which in turn are characterized by their boundaries-upper and lower membership functions (MF). In this two-part paper, we focus on symmetric interval T2 FSs for which the centroid (which is an interval type-1 FS) provides a measure of its uncertainty. Intuitively, we anticipate that geometric properties about the FOU, such as its area and the center of gravities (centroids) of its upper and lower MFs, will be associated with the amount of uncertainty in such a T2 FS. The main purpose of this paper (Part 1) is to demonstrate that our intuition is correct and to quantify the centroid of a symmetric interval T2 FS, and consequently its uncertainty, with respect to such geometric properties. It is then possible, for the first time, to formulate and solve forward problems, i.e., to go from parametric interval T2 FS models to data with associated uncertainty bounds. We provide some solutions to such problems. These solutions are used in Part 2 to solve some inverse problems, i.e., to go from uncertain data to parametric interval T2 FS models (T2 fuzzistics)
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