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Type-2 Fuzzy Sets and Conceptual Spaces

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Advances in Type-2 Fuzzy Sets and Systems

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Conceptual spaces provide a rich interpretation for computing with words, offering additional structure to that provided by fuzzy set models alone. In fuzzy conceptual spaces, properties are type-2 fuzzy sets on domains, concepts are type-2 fuzzy sets on pairs of properties and an observation is a family of fuzzy sets on domains relevant to a context. These type-2 fuzzy set structures are derived and manipulated using subsethood. This chapter relates such a theory of conceptual spaces to conventional multivariate classification and computing with words (CWW), and illustrates its application to land use assessment tasks.

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  1. Faculty of Science and IT, The University of Newcastle, Newcastle, NSW, Australia

    Janet Aisbett

  2. Distributed Infinity, Inc., Larkspur, CO, USA

    John T. Rickard

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  1. Ryerson University, Victoria Street 350, Toronto, M5B 2K3, Ontario, Canada

    Alireza Sadeghian

  2. Hughes Aircraft Electrical Engineering B, Department of Electrical Engineering - S, University of Southern California, 3740 McClintock Ave., Los Angeles, 90089-2564, California, USA

    Jerry M. Mendel

  3. Ryerson University, Victoria Street 350, Toronto, M5B 2K3, Ontario, Canada

    Hooman Tahayori

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Aisbett, J., Rickard, J.T. (2013). Type-2 Fuzzy Sets and Conceptual Spaces. In: Sadeghian, A., Mendel, J., Tahayori, H. (eds) Advances in Type-2 Fuzzy Sets and Systems. Studies in Fuzziness and Soft Computing, vol 301. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4614-6666-6_8

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