fuzzy set

Sets whose elements have degrees of membership

Also known as fuzzy sets

Instance of: mathematical concept
Subclass of: set

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In mathematics, fuzzy sets are sets whose elements have degrees of membership. Fuzzy sets were introduced independently by Lotfi A. Zadeh in 1965 as an extension of the classical notion of set. At the same time, Salii (1965) defined a more general kind of structure called an "L-relation", which he studied in an abstract algebraic context; fuzzy relations are special cases of L-relations when L is the unit interval . They are now used throughout fuzzy mathematics, having applications in areas such as linguistics, decision-making, and clustering.

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