Triangle algebras: A formal logic approach to interval-valued residuated lattices

  • Authors:
  • B. Van Gasse;C. Cornelis;G. Deschrijver;E. E. Kerre

  • Affiliations:
  • Fuzziness and Uncertainty Modelling Research Unit, Department of Applied Mathematics and Computer Science, Ghent University, Krijgslaan 281 (S9), 9000 Gent, Belgium;Fuzziness and Uncertainty Modelling Research Unit, Department of Applied Mathematics and Computer Science, Ghent University, Krijgslaan 281 (S9), 9000 Gent, Belgium;Fuzziness and Uncertainty Modelling Research Unit, Department of Applied Mathematics and Computer Science, Ghent University, Krijgslaan 281 (S9), 9000 Gent, Belgium;Fuzziness and Uncertainty Modelling Research Unit, Department of Applied Mathematics and Computer Science, Ghent University, Krijgslaan 281 (S9), 9000 Gent, Belgium

  • Venue:
  • Fuzzy Sets and Systems
  • Year:
  • 2008

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Abstract

In this paper, we introduce triangle algebras: a variety of residuated lattices equipped with approximation operators, and with a third angular point u, different from 0 and 1. We show that these algebras serve as an equational representation of interval-valued residuated lattices (IVRLs). Furthermore, we present triangle logic (TL), a system of many-valued logic capturing the tautologies of IVRLs. Triangle algebras are used to cast the essence of using closed intervals of L as truth values into a set of appropriate logical axioms. Our results constitute a crucial first step towards solving an important research challenge: the axiomatic formalization of residuated t-norm based logics on L^I, the lattice of closed intervals of [0,1], in a similar way as was done for formal fuzzy logics on the unit interval.