Fuzzy subset

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The notion of fuzzy subset

Consider a vague property as big in a set S, for example a set of apples. Imagine we will define in some way "the set of big apples". Then to do this we can recall that the caracteristic function of a classical subset X of a set S is the map Failed to parse (SVG (MathML can be enabled via browser plugin): Invalid response ("Math extension cannot connect to Restbase.") from server "https://wikimedia.org/api/rest_v1/":): {\displaystyle c_X : S\rightarrow \{0,1\}} such that Failed to parse (SVG (MathML can be enabled via browser plugin): Invalid response ("Math extension cannot connect to Restbase.") from server "https://wikimedia.org/api/rest_v1/":): {\displaystyle c_X(x) =1 } if x is an element in X and Failed to parse (SVG (MathML can be enabled via browser plugin): Invalid response ("Math extension cannot connect to Restbase.") from server "https://wikimedia.org/api/rest_v1/":): {\displaystyle c_X(x) =0 } otherwise. Obviously, it is possible to identify X with its characteristic function Failed to parse (SVG (MathML can be enabled via browser plugin): Invalid response ("Math extension cannot connect to Restbase.") from server "https://wikimedia.org/api/rest_v1/":): {\displaystyle c_X} . This suggests that we can define the subset of big apples by a generalized caracteristic function in which instead of the Boolean algebra {0,1} we can consider the complete lattice [0,1]. The following is a precise definition.


Definition Given a nonempty set S, a fuzzy subset of S is a map s from S into the interval [0,1]. We denote by Failed to parse (SVG (MathML can be enabled via browser plugin): Invalid response ("Math extension cannot connect to Restbase.") from server "https://wikimedia.org/api/rest_v1/":): {\displaystyle F(S) } the class of all the fuzzy subsets of S. We say that s is crisp if Failed to parse (SVG (MathML can be enabled via browser plugin): Invalid response ("Math extension cannot connect to Restbase.") from server "https://wikimedia.org/api/rest_v1/":): {\displaystyle s(x)\in\{0,1\}} for every Failed to parse (SVG (MathML can be enabled via browser plugin): Invalid response ("Math extension cannot connect to Restbase.") from server "https://wikimedia.org/api/rest_v1/":): {\displaystyle x\in S} .

The idea is that such a notion enables us to represent the extension of predicates as "big","slow", "near" "similar", which are vague in nature. Indeed, the elements in [0,1] are interpreted as truth values and, in accordance, for every x in S, the value s(x) is interpreted as the membership degree of x to s. The notion of fuzzy subset is on the basis of fuzzy logic. By associating every classical subsets of S with its caracteristic function, we can identify the subsets of S with the crisp fuzzy subsets. In particular we identify Failed to parse (SVG (MathML can be enabled via browser plugin): Invalid response ("Math extension cannot connect to Restbase.") from server "https://wikimedia.org/api/rest_v1/":): {\displaystyle \emptyset} with the fuzzy subset constantly equal to 0 and Failed to parse (SVG (MathML can be enabled via browser plugin): Invalid response ("Math extension cannot connect to Restbase.") from server "https://wikimedia.org/api/rest_v1/":): {\displaystyle S} with the fuzzy subset constantly equal to 1.

Some set-theoretical notions for fuzzy subsets

In classical mathematics the definitions of union, intersection and complement are related with the interpretation of the basic logical connectives Failed to parse (SVG (MathML can be enabled via browser plugin): Invalid response ("Math extension cannot connect to Restbase.") from server "https://wikimedia.org/api/rest_v1/":): {\displaystyle \vee, \wedge, \neg} . In order to define the same operations for fuzzy subsets, we have to fix a multi-valued logic and therefore suitable operations Failed to parse (SVG (MathML can be enabled via browser plugin): Invalid response ("Math extension cannot connect to Restbase.") from server "https://wikimedia.org/api/rest_v1/":): {\displaystyle \oplus, \otimes} and ~ to interpret these connectives. Once this was done, we can set

Failed to parse (SVG (MathML can be enabled via browser plugin): Invalid response ("Math extension cannot connect to Restbase.") from server "https://wikimedia.org/api/rest_v1/":): {\displaystyle (s\cup t)(x) = s(x)\oplus t(x)} ,

Failed to parse (SVG (MathML can be enabled via browser plugin): Invalid response ("Math extension cannot connect to Restbase.") from server "https://wikimedia.org/api/rest_v1/":): {\displaystyle (s\cap t)(x) = s(x)\otimes t(x)} ,

Failed to parse (SVG (MathML can be enabled via browser plugin): Invalid response ("Math extension cannot connect to Restbase.") from server "https://wikimedia.org/api/rest_v1/":): {\displaystyle (-s)(x) = ~s(x)} .

Also, the inclusion relation is defined by setting

Failed to parse (SVG (MathML can be enabled via browser plugin): Invalid response ("Math extension cannot connect to Restbase.") from server "https://wikimedia.org/api/rest_v1/":): {\displaystyle s\subseteq t \Leftrightarrow s(x)\leq t(x)} for every Failed to parse (SVG (MathML can be enabled via browser plugin): Invalid response ("Math extension cannot connect to Restbase.") from server "https://wikimedia.org/api/rest_v1/":): {\displaystyle x\in S} .


In such a way an algebraic structure Failed to parse (SVG (MathML can be enabled via browser plugin): Invalid response ("Math extension cannot connect to Restbase.") from server "https://wikimedia.org/api/rest_v1/":): {\displaystyle (F(S), \cup, \cap, -, \emptyset, S)} is defined and this structure is the direct power of the structure Failed to parse (SVG (MathML can be enabled via browser plugin): Invalid response ("Math extension cannot connect to Restbase.") from server "https://wikimedia.org/api/rest_v1/":): {\displaystyle ([0,1],\oplus, \otimes,} ~,0,1) with index set S. In Zadeh's original papers the operations Failed to parse (SVG (MathML can be enabled via browser plugin): Invalid response ("Math extension cannot connect to Restbase.") from server "https://wikimedia.org/api/rest_v1/":): {\displaystyle \oplus, \otimes} , ~ are defined by setting for every x and y in [0,1]:

Failed to parse (SVG (MathML can be enabled via browser plugin): Invalid response ("Math extension cannot connect to Restbase.") from server "https://wikimedia.org/api/rest_v1/":): {\displaystyle x\otimes y } = min(x, y)

Failed to parse (SVG (MathML can be enabled via browser plugin): Invalid response ("Math extension cannot connect to Restbase.") from server "https://wikimedia.org/api/rest_v1/":): {\displaystyle x\oplus y } = max(x,y)

Failed to parse (SVG (MathML can be enabled via browser plugin): Invalid response ("Math extension cannot connect to Restbase.") from server "https://wikimedia.org/api/rest_v1/":): {\displaystyle ~x } = 1-x.

In such a case Failed to parse (SVG (MathML can be enabled via browser plugin): Invalid response ("Math extension cannot connect to Restbase.") from server "https://wikimedia.org/api/rest_v1/":): {\displaystyle (F(S),\cup, \cap, -,\emptyset, S)} is a complete, completely distributive lattice with an involution. Several authors prefer to consider different operations, as an example to assume that Failed to parse (SVG (MathML can be enabled via browser plugin): Invalid response ("Math extension cannot connect to Restbase.") from server "https://wikimedia.org/api/rest_v1/":): {\displaystyle \otimes} is a triangular norm and that Failed to parse (SVG (MathML can be enabled via browser plugin): Invalid response ("Math extension cannot connect to Restbase.") from server "https://wikimedia.org/api/rest_v1/":): {\displaystyle \oplus } is the corresponding triangular co-norm. In all the cases the interpretation of the logical connectives is conservative in the sense that the restriction to {0,1} coincide with the classical one. This entails that the whole fuzzy logic is conservative, i.e. is an extension of classical logic, in a sense. In particular, we have that the map associating any subset X of a set S with the related caracteristic function is an embedding of the Boolean algebra Failed to parse (SVG (MathML can be enabled via browser plugin): Invalid response ("Math extension cannot connect to Restbase.") from server "https://wikimedia.org/api/rest_v1/":): {\displaystyle (P(S), \cup, \cap, -, \emptyset, S)} into the algebra Failed to parse (SVG (MathML can be enabled via browser plugin): Invalid response ("Math extension cannot connect to Restbase.") from server "https://wikimedia.org/api/rest_v1/":): {\displaystyle (F(S), \cup, \cap, -, \emptyset, S)} . An extension of these definitions to the general case in which instead of [0,1] we consider different algebraic structures is obvious.

Fuzzy logic and probability

Many peoples compare fuzzy logic with probability theory since both refer to the interval [0,1]. However, they are conceptually distinct since we have not confuse a degree of truth with a probability measure. To illustrate the difference, consider the following example: Let Failed to parse (SVG (MathML can be enabled via browser plugin): Invalid response ("Math extension cannot connect to Restbase.") from server "https://wikimedia.org/api/rest_v1/":): {\displaystyle \alpha} be the claim "the rose on the table is red" and imagine we can freely examine the rose (complete knowledge) but, as a matter of fact, the color looks not exactly red. Then Failed to parse (SVG (MathML can be enabled via browser plugin): Invalid response ("Math extension cannot connect to Restbase.") from server "https://wikimedia.org/api/rest_v1/":): {\displaystyle \alpha} is neither fully true nor fully false and we can express that by assigning to Failed to parse (SVG (MathML can be enabled via browser plugin): Invalid response ("Math extension cannot connect to Restbase.") from server "https://wikimedia.org/api/rest_v1/":): {\displaystyle \alpha} a truth value, as an example 0.8, different from 0 and 1 (fuzziness). This truth value does not depend on the information we have since this information is complete.

Now, imagine a world in which all the roses are either clearly red or clearly yellow. In such a world Failed to parse (SVG (MathML can be enabled via browser plugin): Invalid response ("Math extension cannot connect to Restbase.") from server "https://wikimedia.org/api/rest_v1/":): {\displaystyle \alpha} is either true or false but, inasmuch as we cannot examine the rose on the table, we are not able to know what is the case. Nevertheless, we have an opinion about the possible color of that rose and we could assign to Failed to parse (SVG (MathML can be enabled via browser plugin): Invalid response ("Math extension cannot connect to Restbase.") from server "https://wikimedia.org/api/rest_v1/":): {\displaystyle \alpha} a number, as an example 0.8, as a subjective measure of our degree of belief in Failed to parse (SVG (MathML can be enabled via browser plugin): Invalid response ("Math extension cannot connect to Restbase.") from server "https://wikimedia.org/api/rest_v1/":): {\displaystyle \alpha} (probability). In such a case this number depends strongly from the information we have and, for example, it can vary if we have some new information on the taste of the possessor of the rose.

See also

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