Partition validity and defuzzification

  • Authors:
  • Antonio Flores-Sintas;José M. Cadenas;Fernando Martin

  • Affiliations:
  • Departamento de Nuevas Tecnologıas, Caja de Ahorros de Murcia, Gran Via-23, 30005-Murcia, Spain;Departamento de Informática y Sistemas, Facultad de Informática, Universidad de Murcia, 30071-Espinardo, Murcia, Spain;Departamento de Informática y Sistemas, Facultad de Informática, Universidad de Murcia, 30071-Espinardo, Murcia, Spain

  • Venue:
  • Fuzzy Sets and Systems
  • Year:
  • 2000

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Abstract

The fuzzy partition validity is a necessary measure to fix the number of groups in the fuzzy algorithms which need to know this data. We propose a measure based on the membership probabilities. Moreover, we propose a new concept of the hard partition based on the metric of the groups. The hard partition can be obtained from the fuzzy partition, from which it is possible to find the hard membership probabilities and the hard partition validity. A similarity relation is proposed over the set of groups belonging to the hard partition.