Novel and Different Definitions for Fuzzy Union and Intersection Operations

This paper presents three new methodologies for the basic operations, which aim at finding new ways of computing union (maximum) and intersection (minimum) membership values by taking into effect the entire membership values in a fuzzy set. The new methodologies are conceptually simple and easy from the application point of view and are illustrated with a variety of problems such as Cartesian product of two fuzzy sets, max –min composition of two fuzzy sets in different product spaces and an application of an inverted pendulum to determine the impact of the new methodologies. The results clearly indicate a difference based on the nature of the fuzzy sets under consideration and hence will be highly useful in quite a few applications where different values have significant impact on the behavior of the system.

Authors:

• Aarthi Chandramohan
• M. V. C. Rao

Keywords:

• Centroid
• fuzzy set operations
• intersection
• triangular norms
• triangular S-norms
• union.

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