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Dealing with typical values via Atanassov's intuitionistic fuzzy sets

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Pages 489-506 | Received 01 Apr 2009, Accepted 16 Nov 2009, Published online: 13 May 2010
 

Abstract

This paper is an improved and extended version of our previous workFootnote2 on typicality in terms of Atanassov's intuitionistic fuzzy sets (to be called A-IFSs, for short)Footnote3. We follow the line of reasoning known from psychological and cognitive sciences, in particular from linguistic experiments, and verify how those results work in the case of classification – a typical problem in computer science, decision sciences, etc. Our considerations concentrate on a typical example discussed in cognitive sciences – we investigate to which extent a linguistic representation in a psychological space (we start from nominal data – names are assigned to objects as labels) succeeds in predicting categories via A-IFSs. First, we consider a model of categories with a geometrical centroid model in which the similarity is defined in terms of a distance to centroids. Next, we verify if the extreme ideals, which are important in cognitive processes when categories are learnt in the presence of the alternative (contrast) category, give comparative results. Finally, we discuss if the ‘reachable extreme ideals’ and ‘dominating frequency centres’ give comparative results. We show that A-IFSs make it possible to reflect a positive and negative information via the concept of membership and non-membership. Although the paper presents ongoing research, the results obtained are promising and point out the usefulness and strength of A-IFSs as a tool to account for more aspects of vague data and information.

2. Based on ‘On Some Typical Values for A-IFS’, by CitationE. Szmidt and J. Kacprzyk which appeared in the Proceedings of the 4th International IEEE Conference on Intelligent Systems IS'08, pp. 13-2–13-7.

3. There is currently a discussion on the appropriateness of the name IFS introduced by Dubois et al. (Citation2005), and also Atanassov's (Citation2005) response. This is, however, beyond the scope of this paper which will not be dealing with this issue.

Notes

2. Based on ‘On Some Typical Values for A-IFS’, by CitationE. Szmidt and J. Kacprzyk which appeared in the Proceedings of the 4th International IEEE Conference on Intelligent Systems IS'08, pp. 13-2–13-7.

3. There is currently a discussion on the appropriateness of the name IFS introduced by Dubois et al. (Citation2005), and also Atanassov's (Citation2005) response. This is, however, beyond the scope of this paper which will not be dealing with this issue.

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Notes on contributors

Janusz Kacprzyk

1. 1. [email protected].

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