Measuring the directional distance between fuzzy sets

The measure of distance between two fuzzy sets is a fundamental tool within fuzzy set theory. However, current distance measures within the literature do not account for the direction of change between fuzzy sets; a useful concept in a variety of applications, such as Computing With Words. In this p...

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Main Authors: McCulloch, Josie, Wagner, Christian, Aickelin, Uwe
Format: Conference or Workshop Item
Published: 2013
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Online Access:https://eprints.nottingham.ac.uk/3340/
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Wagner, Christian
Aickelin, Uwe
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description The measure of distance between two fuzzy sets is a fundamental tool within fuzzy set theory. However, current distance measures within the literature do not account for the direction of change between fuzzy sets; a useful concept in a variety of applications, such as Computing With Words. In this paper, we highlight this utility and introduce a distance measure which takes the direction between sets into account. We provide details of its application for normal and non-normal, as well as convex and non-convex fuzzy sets. We demonstrate the new distance measure using real data from the MovieLens dataset and establish the benefits of measuring the direction between fuzzy sets.
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spelling nottingham-33402020-05-04T20:20:36Z https://eprints.nottingham.ac.uk/3340/ Measuring the directional distance between fuzzy sets McCulloch, Josie Wagner, Christian Aickelin, Uwe The measure of distance between two fuzzy sets is a fundamental tool within fuzzy set theory. However, current distance measures within the literature do not account for the direction of change between fuzzy sets; a useful concept in a variety of applications, such as Computing With Words. In this paper, we highlight this utility and introduce a distance measure which takes the direction between sets into account. We provide details of its application for normal and non-normal, as well as convex and non-convex fuzzy sets. We demonstrate the new distance measure using real data from the MovieLens dataset and establish the benefits of measuring the direction between fuzzy sets. 2013 Conference or Workshop Item PeerReviewed McCulloch, Josie, Wagner, Christian and Aickelin, Uwe (2013) Measuring the directional distance between fuzzy sets. In: UKCI 2013, the 13th Annual Workshop on Computational Intelligence, 9-11 Sept 2013, University of Surrey. Fuzzy Logic http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/xpl/articleDetails.jsp?arnumber=6651285
spellingShingle Fuzzy
Logic
McCulloch, Josie
Wagner, Christian
Aickelin, Uwe
Measuring the directional distance between fuzzy sets
title Measuring the directional distance between fuzzy sets
title_full Measuring the directional distance between fuzzy sets
title_fullStr Measuring the directional distance between fuzzy sets
title_full_unstemmed Measuring the directional distance between fuzzy sets
title_short Measuring the directional distance between fuzzy sets
title_sort measuring the directional distance between fuzzy sets
topic Fuzzy
Logic
url https://eprints.nottingham.ac.uk/3340/
https://eprints.nottingham.ac.uk/3340/