Chu Spaces: Towards New Justification for Fuzzy Heuristics

Authors

Nhu Nguyen
Hung T. Nguyen
Vladik Kreinovich, The University of Texas at El PasoFollow

Publication Date

2-2000

Comments

UTEP-CS-00-07a.

Published in Leo Obrst and Inderjeet Mani (eds.), Proceedings of the Workshop on Semantic Approximation, Granularity, and Vagueness, A Workshop of the Seventh International Conference on Principles of Knowledge Representation and Reasoning KR'2000, Breckenridge, Colorado, April 11, 2000, pp. 51-56.

Abstract

We show that Chu spaces, a new formalism used to describe parallelism and information flow, provide uniform explanations for different choices of fuzzy methodology, such as choices of fuzzy logical operations, of membership functions, of defuzzification, etc.