Reasoning About Distance Based on Fuzzy Sets

  • Authors:
  • Hans W. Guesgen

  • Affiliations:
  • Department of Computer Science, University of Auckland, Private Bag 92019, Auckland, New Zealand. hans@cs.auckland.ac.nz

  • Venue:
  • Applied Intelligence
  • Year:
  • 2002

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Abstract

Most computer systems that deal with issues of space reason about distance by using a metric. For example, most geographic information systems apply the euclidean metric, requiring all subjects to adhere to the same view of space. As a result, dealing with imprecise or uncertain geographic information becomes difficult or sometimes even impossible. In this paper, we describe a way of reasoning about distance that is not restricted to euclidean geometry. The idea is to use fuzzy sets to describe how close objects are to each other.