Publication Date
3-2001
Abstract
From the commonsense viewpoint, if a person who weighs around 100 kilograms gains one more kilogram, his weight is still around 100 kilograms. Alas, not so in traditional fuzzy arithmetic. In this paper, we propose a modification of fuzzy arithmetic which does have this property. We gain the desired property, but there is no free lunch, we have to lose two important properties of the traditional fuzzy arithmetic: first, addition is no longer always associative; second, addition is no longer always easily computable.
Comments
UTEP-CS-01-08.
Published in the Proceedings of the Joint 9th World Congress of the International Fuzzy Systems Association and 20th International Conference of the North American Fuzzy Information Processing Society IFSA/NAFIPS 2001, Vancouver, Canada, July 25-28, 2001, pp. 1653-1658.