Measuring the quality of linguistic forecasts
International Journal of Man-Machine Studies
The principle of minimum specificity as a basis for evidential reasoning
Processing and Management of Uncertainty in Knowledge-Based Systems on Uncertainty in knowledge-based systems. International Conference on Information
Fuzzy sets in approximate reasoning, part 1: inference with possibility distributions
Fuzzy Sets and Systems - Special memorial volume on foundations of fuzzy reasoning
On the specificity of a possibility distribution
Fuzzy Sets and Systems
Default knowledge and measures of specificity
Information Sciences: an International Journal
Fuzzy Sets and Systems - Theme: Basic notions
Data mining, rough sets and granular computing
Data mining, rough sets and granular computing
Toward a generalized theory of uncertainty (GTU): an outline
Information Sciences—Informatics and Computer Science: An International Journal
Discussion: From imprecise to granular probabilities
Fuzzy Sets and Systems
Similarity relations and fuzzy orderings
Information Sciences: an International Journal
Some aspects of intuitionistic fuzzy sets
Fuzzy Optimization and Decision Making
Non-specificity measures for type-2 fuzzy sets
FUZZ-IEEE'09 Proceedings of the 18th international conference on Fuzzy Systems
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We introduce the concept of specificity and indicate its importance as a measure of uncertainty for information represented using fuzzy sets or possibility distributions. We provide formal measures of specificity for variables whose domain is an interval of the real line. Similarity relations are discussed and formalized. The class of width-based similarity relations is introduced. We extend the measure of specificity to allow for the effect of an underlying similarity relationship. The manifestation of this extension for a number of different similarity relations is investigated. Particularly notable results are obtained for width-based similarity relationships. More generally we note the connection between the size of a granule of information and its uncertainty. Motivated by this we investigate the effect of a similarity relationship on the perception of distance in the underlying space and use this to develop an extension of the specificity measure.