Zadeh, L. A.


Fuzzy sets. (English) Zbl 0139.24606

Inf. Control 8, 338-353 (1965).

A fuzzy set is a “set” of elements with a continuum of “grades of membership”. The rigorous definition
is: let X be a set of objects (elements); a fuzzy set A in X is defined by a “membership (characteristic)
function” fA , which associates with each element x ∈ X a real number fA (x) ∈ [0, 1]. The value fA (x) of
fA at x represents the grade of membership of x in A. If A is an “ordinary” set, its membership function
fA can take on only the values 0 and 1: x ∈ A ⇔ fA (x) = 1 and x ̸= A ⇔ fA (x) = 0. Various usual
notions are extended to such sets (for instance, the notions of union, intersection and convexity).
Reviewer: Newton C. A. da Costa (São Paulo)

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MSC:
03E72 Theory of fuzzy sets, etc. Cited in 75 Reviews
Cited in 8763 Documents

Keywords:
fuzzy sets; continuum of grades of membership; membership characteristic function; separation theorem
for convex fuzzy sets

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