On the approximation of compact fuzzy sets

  • Authors:
  • Y. Chalco-Cano;A. D. Báez-Sánchez;H. Román-Flores;M. A. Rojas-Medar

  • Affiliations:
  • Departamento de Matemática, Universidad de Tarapacá, Casilla 7D, Arica, Chile;Instituto de Matemática Estatística e Computação Científica, Universidade Estadual de Campinas, Campinas - SP, Brazil;Instituto de Alta Investigación, Universidad de Tarapacá, Casilla 7D, Arica, Chile;Departamento de Ciencias Básicas, Facultad de Ciencias, Universidad del Bío-Bío, Chillán, Chile

  • Venue:
  • Computers & Mathematics with Applications
  • Year:
  • 2011

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Abstract

This paper suggests an approximation for a compact fuzzy set by a sequence of Lipschitz fuzzy sets. This approximation method involves the construction of Lipschitz fuzzy sets using the sup-min convolution of a compact fuzzy set with a fuzzy zero. Considering a similar procedure, we present the approximation of a trapezoidal type fuzzy interval by a sequence of differentiable fuzzy intervals. We show some important properties of both approximations and we give some numerical examples illustrating the results.