Fuzzy Sets and Systems, Volume 157

Volume 157, Number 1, 1 January 2006

Preference modelling

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  María J. Campión, Juan Carlos Candeal, Esteban Induráin:
  Representability of binary relations through fuzzy numbers. 1-19
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  Jian Ma, Zhi-Ping Fan, Yan-Ping Jiang, Ji-Ye Mao, Louis Ma:
  A method for repairing the inconsistency of fuzzy preference relations. 20-33

Decision analysis

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  Yuh-Wen Chen, Moussa Larbani:
  Two-person zero-sum game approach for fuzzy multiple attribute decision making problems. 34-51

Production research

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  Manas Kumar Maiti, Manoranjan Maiti:
  Fuzzy inventory model with two warehouses under possibility constraints. 52-73
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  Josefa Mula, Raul Poler, J. P. Garcia:
  MRP with flexible constraints: A fuzzy mathematical programming approach. 74-97
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  Richard Y. K. Fung, Yizeng Chen, Jiafu Tang:
  Estimating the functional relationships for quality function deployment under uncertainties. 98-120

Markov chains

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  Jiancheng Guan, Yueqin Wu:
  Repairable consecutive-k-out-of-n: F system with fuzzy states. 121-142
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  M. A. Symeonaki, Giorgos B. Stamou:
  Rate of convergence, asymptotically attainable structures and sensitivity in non-homogeneous Markov systems with fuzzy states. 143-159

Volume 157, Number 2, 16 January 2006

Algebra

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  Radim Belohlávek, Vilém Vychodil:
  Algebras with fuzzy equalities. 161-201

Discussion on algebras with fuzzy equalities

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  Mustafa Demirci:
  Non-existence of non-trivial L-algebras containing field structure in the sense of Belohlávek and an open question. 202-204
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  Radim Belohlávek, Vilém Vychodil:
  An answer to Demirci's open question, a clarification of his result, and a correction of his interpretation of the result. 205-211

Analysis

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  Xiaoping Xue, Yongqiang Fu:
  On the structure of solutions for fuzzy initial value problem. 212-229
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  Heriberto Román-Flores, Yurilev Chalco-Cano:
  H-continuity of fuzzy measures and set defuzzification. 230-242
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  Sang Yeol Joo, Yun Kyong Kim, Joong Sung Kwon, Gyeong Suk Choi:
  Convergence in distribution for level-continuous fuzzy random sets. 243-255
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  Zhenyuan Wang, Rong Yang, Pheng-Ann Heng, Kwong-Sak Leung:
  Real-valued Choquet integrals with fuzzy-valued integrand. 256-269
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  Jin-xuan Fang:
  On fixed degree theorems for fuzzy mappings in Menger PM-spaces. 270-285
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  Gabriele H. Greco:
  Sendograph metric and relatively compact sets of fuzzy sets. 286-291

Probability theory

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  Endre Pap, Ivana Stajner-Papuga:
  A limit theorem for triangle functions. 292-307

Possibility theory

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  Yann Rébillé:
  A Yosida-Hewitt decomposition for minitive set functions. 308-318

Volume 157, Number 3, 1 February 2006

Possibility theory

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  Marie-Hélène Masson, Thierry Denoeux:
  Inferring a possibility distribution from empirical data. 319-340

Fuzzy relations

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  Manolis Wallace, Yannis Avrithis, Stefanos D. Kollias:
  Computationally efficient sup-t transitive closure for sparse fuzzy binary relations. 341-372

Fuzzy connectives

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  Koen Maes, Bernard De Baets:
  Rotation-invariant t-norm solutions of a system of functional equations. 373-397
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  Zhudeng Wang:
  Generating pseudo-t-norms and implication operators. 398-410
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  Mi Hye Kim:
  Homogeneity properties of seminormed fuzzy integrals. 411-426

Logic

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  Hongjun Zhou, Guo-Jun Wang:
  A new theory consistency index based on deduction theorems in several logic systems. 427-443

Computer science

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  Tatjana Petkovic:
  Congruences and homomorphisms of fuzzy automata. 444-458

Category theory

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  Sergey A. Solovyov:
  On the category Set(JCPos). 459-465

Correspondence

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  Radoslaw Smogura:
  A note on the article: "Residual implications revisited". 466-469

Volume 157, Number 4, 16 February 2006

Fuzzy models

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  John B. Theocharis:
  A high-order recurrent neuro-fuzzy system with internal dynamics: Application to the adaptive noise cancellation. 471-500
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  Radhia Hassine, Fakhreddine Karray, Adel M. Alimi, Mohamed Selmi:
  Approximation properties of piece-wise parabolic functions fuzzy logic systems. 501-515

System analysis

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  Santiago Aja-Fernández, Carlos Alberola-López:
  Fuzzy feedback system analysis using transition matrices. 516-543
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  Engang Tian, Chen Peng:
  Delay-dependent stability analysis and synthesis of uncertain T-S fuzzy systems with time-varying delay. 544-559

Applications

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  Le-Diem Bui, Yong-Gi Kim:
  An obstacle-avoidance technique for autonomous underwater vehicles based on BK-products of fuzzy relation. 560-577
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  Paris A. Mastorocostas:
  A recurrent fuzzy filter for the analysis of lung sounds. 578-594

Volume 157, Number 5, 1 March 2006

What is Fuzzy Logic

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  Vilém Novák:
  What is Fuzzy Logic? 595-596
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  Petr Hájek:
  What is mathematical fuzzy logic. 597-603
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  Libor Behounek, Petr Cintula:
  Fuzzy logics as the logics of chains. 604-610
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  Vladik Kreinovich, Hung T. Nguyen:
  Which fuzzy logic is the best: Pragmatic approach (and its theoretical analysis). 611-614
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  Irina Perfilieva:
  Logical foundations of rule-based systems. 615-621
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  Chris Cornelis, Glad Deschrijver, Etienne E. Kerre:
  Advances and challenges in interval-valued fuzzy logic. 622-627
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  Jun Ma, S. Chen, Yang Xu:
  Fuzzy logic from the viewpoint of machine intelligence. 628-634
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  Vilém Novák:
  Which logic is the real fuzzy logic? 635-641
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  Libor Behounek, Petr Cintula:
  From fuzzy logic to fuzzy mathematics: A methodological manifesto. 642-646

Logic

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  Nehad N. Morsi, Wafik Boulos Lotfallah, Moataz Saleh El-Zekey:
  The logic of tied implications, part 1: Properties, applications and representation. 647-669
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  San-Min Wang, Ming-Yan Wang:
  Undefinability of min-conjunction in MTL. 670-676
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  Petr Hájek:
  Computational complexity of t-norm based propositional fuzzy logics with rational truth constants. 677-682

Algebra

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  David Buhagiar, Emmanuel Chetcuti, Anatolij Dvurecenskij:
  Loomis-Sikorski representation of monotone sigma-complete effect algebras. 683-690

Measure theory

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  Shin Asahina, Kenta Uchino, Toshiaki Murofushi:
  Relationship among continuity conditions and null-additivity conditions in non-additive measure theory. 691-698
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  Qi-fen Xie, Jin-xuan Fang:
  Corrections and remarks to the paper in Fuzzy and Systems 124 (2001) 117-123. 699-704

Book review

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  Milan Mares:
  Book review. 705

Volume 157, Number 6, 16 March 2006

Topology

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  Tomasz Kubiak, Iraide Mardones-Pérez, María Angeles de Prada-Vicente:
  L-uniform spaces versus ?(L)-uniform spaces. 719-738
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  Jinming Fang:
  Sums of L-fuzzy topological spaces. 739-754
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  Javier Gutiérrez García, María Angeles de Prada-Vicente:
  Hutton [0, 1]-quasi-uniformities induced by fuzzy (quasi-)metric spaces. 755-766
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  Li Qinghua, Jinming Fang:
  Countability axioms in I-fuzzy topological spaces. 767-779
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  Yueli Yue, Jinming Fang:
  On separation axioms in I-fuzzy topological spaces. 780-793
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  Fu-Gui Shi:
  A new approach to L-T₂, L-Urysohn, and L-completely Hausdorff axioms. 794-803
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  T. K. Breuckmann, S. R. T. Kudri:
  Hurewicz spaces and the selectively omega^*-grouping property. 804-812
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  Javier Gutiérrez García:
  On stratified L-valued filters induced by T-filters. 813-819

Category theory

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  Jinming Fang:
  Categories isomorphic to L-FTOP. 820-831
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  Yueli Yue, Jinming Fang:
  Categories isomorphic to the Kubiak-Sostak extension of TML. 832-842
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  Sergey A. Solovyov:
  Categories of lattice-valued sets as categories of arrows. 843-854
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  Yongming Li:
  A categorical approach to lattice-valued fuzzy automata. 855-864

Correspondence

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  Fu-Gui Shi, Zhen-Guo Xu:
  A note on "Urysohn separation property in topological molecular lattices". 865-867

Volume 157, Number 7, 1 April 2006

Defuzzification

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  Xinwang Liu:
  On the maximum entropy parameterized interval approximation of fuzzy numbers. 869-878
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  Slavka Bodjanova:
  Median alpha-levels of a fuzzy number. 879-891
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  Gisella Facchinetti, Nicoletta Pacchiarotti:
  Evaluations of fuzzy quantities. 892-903
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  Ester Van Broekhoven, Bernard De Baets:
  Fast and accurate center of gravity defuzzification of fuzzy system outputs defined on trapezoidal fuzzy partitions. 904-918
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  Ying-Ming Wang, Jian-Bo Yang, Dong-Ling Xu, Kwai-Sang Chin:
  On the centroids of fuzzy numbers. 919-926

Computation methods

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  Patrick Meyer, Marc Roubens:
  On the use of the Choquet integral with fuzzy numbers in multiple criteria decision support. 927-938
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  Silvia Muzzioli, Huguette Reynaerts:
  Fuzzy linear systems of the form A₁x+b₁=A₂x+b₂. 939-951
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  József Dombi, Norbert Gyorbíró:
  Addition of sigmoid-shaped fuzzy intervals using the Dombi operator and infinite sum theorems. 952-963

Mathematical aspects

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  Ali Jaballah, Fathi B. Saidi:
  Uniqueness results in the representation of families of sets by fuzzy sets. 964-975
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  Salih Aytar, Musa A. Mammadov, Serpil Pehlivan:
  Statistical limit inferior and limit superior for sequences of fuzzy numbers. 976-985

Correspondence

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  Barnabás Bede:
  A note on "two-point boundary value problems associated with non-linear fuzzy differential equations". 986-989
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  Wenyi Zeng, Hongxing Li:
  Note on "Some operations on intuitionistic fuzzy sets" [Fuzzy Sets and Systems 114 (2000) 477]^, . 990-991

Volume 157, Number 8, 16 April 2006

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  Hugues Bersini, Thierry Denoeux, Didier Dubois, Henri Prade:
  In Memoriam: Philippe Smets (1938-2005).

Fuzzy transforms

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  Irina Perfilieva:
  Fuzzy transforms: Theory and applications. 993-1023
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  Martina Danková, Martin Stepnicka:
  Fuzzy transform as an additive normal form. 1024-1035

Fuzzy models

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  Cheng-Jian Lin, Yong-Ji Xu:
  A self-adaptive neural fuzzy network with group-based symbiotic evolution and its prediction applications. 1036-1056
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  Shang-Ming Zhou, John Q. Gan:
  Constructing accurate and parsimonious fuzzy models with distinguishable fuzzy sets based on an entropy measure. 1057-1074
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  Giancarlo Ferrari-Trecate, Riccardo Rovatti:
  Consistent Sobolev regression via fuzzy systems with overlapping concepts. 1075-1091

Support-vector machines

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  Jacek M. Leski:
  On support vector regression machines with linguistic interpretation of the kernel matrix. 1092-1113
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  Changha Hwang, Dug Hun Hong, Kyung Ha Seok:
  Support vector interval regression machine for crisp input and output data. 1114-1125

Image processing

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  Ioannis K. Vlachos, George D. Sergiadis:
  Parametric indices of fuzziness for automated image enhancement. 1126-1138

Volume 157, Number 9, May 2006

Fuzzy Concepts Applied to Food Control Quality Control

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  Nathalie Perrot:
  Fuzzy concepts applied to food product quality control. 1143-1144
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  Nathalie Perrot, Irina Ioannou, I. Allais, C. Curt, Joseph Hossenlopp, Gilles Trystram:
  Fuzzy concepts applied to food product quality control: A review. 1145-1154
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  Boyko Iliev, Malin Lindquist, Linn Robertsson, Peter Wide:
  A fuzzy technique for food- and water quality assessment with an electronic tongue. 1155-1168
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  S. Kupongsak, Jinglu Tan:
  Application of fuzzy set and neural network techniques in determining food process control set points. 1169-1178
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  Irina Ioannou, Gilles Mauris, Gilles Trystram, Nathalie Perrot:
  Back-propagation of imprecision in a cheese ripening fuzzy model based on human sensory evaluations. 1179-1187
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  Patrice Buche, Juliette Dibie-Barthélemy, Ollivier Haemmerlé, Rallou Thomopoulos:
  Fuzzy concepts applied to the design of a database in predictive microbiology. 1188-1200
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  Valerie J. Davidson, Joanne Ryks, Aamir Fazil:
  Fuzzy risk assessment tool for microbial hazards in food systems. 1201-1210

Regular Section Control engineering

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  Bong-Jae Rhee, Sangchul Won:
  A new fuzzy Lyapunov function approach for a Takagi-Sugeno fuzzy control system design. 1211-1228
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  Chong Lin, Qing-Guo Wang, Tong Heng Lee:
  Delay-dependent LMI conditions for stability and stabilization of T-S fuzzy systems with bounded time-delay. 1229-1247
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  Thierry-Marie Guerra, Alexandre Kruszewski, Laurent Vermeiren, Helene Tirmant:
  Conditions of output stabilization for nonlinear models in the Takagi-Sugeno's form. Fuzzy Sets Syst. 157(9): 1248-1259 (2006)

Neuro-fuzzy systems

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  Hai-Jun Rong, N. Sundararajan, Guang-Bin Huang, P. Saratchandran:
  Sequential Adaptive Fuzzy Inference System (SAFIS) for nonlinear system identification and prediction. 1260-1275

Correspondence

• 
  Mohammed Chadli, Ahmed El Hajjaji:
  Comment on "Observer-based robust fuzzy control of nonlinear systems with parametric uncertainties". 1276-1281

Volume 157, Number 10, May 2006

Optimization

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  Jaroslav Ramík:
  Duality in fuzzy linear programming with possibility and necessity relations. 1283-1302
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  Tien-Fu Liang:
  Distribution planning decisions using interactive fuzzy multi-objective linear programming. 1303-1316
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  Valerio Lacagnina, Antonio Pecorella:
  A stochastic soft constraints fuzzy model for a portfolio selection problem. 1317-1327
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  Xue-quan Li, Bo Zhang, Hui Li:
  Computing efficient solutions to fuzzy multiple objective linear programming problems. 1328-1332

Decision-making

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  Ying-Ming Wang, Celik Parkan:
  A general multiple attribute decision-making approach for integrating subjective preferences and objective information. 1333-1345
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  Teimuraz Tsabadze:
  A method for fuzzy aggregation based on group expert evaluations. 1346-1361

Cooperative games

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  Elisenda Molina, Juan Tejada:
  Linear production games with fuzzy control. 1362-1383

Aggregation operations

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  Yasuo Narukawa, Vicenç Torra:
  Generalized transformed t-conorm integral and multifold integral. 1384-1392
• 
  Ronald R. Yager, Zeshui Xu:
  The continuous ordered weighted geometric operator and its application to decision making. 1393-1402
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  Susanne Saminger:
  On ordinal sums of triangular norms on bounded lattices. 1403-1416

Volume 157, Number 11, June 2006

Advances in fuzzy sets

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  Laurent Foulloy, Eric Benoit:
  Building a class of fuzzy equivalence relations. 1417-1437
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  Patrick Bosc, Olivier Pivert:
  About approximate inclusion and its axiomatization. 1438-1454
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  Thomas Vetterlein, Mirko Navara:
  Defuzzification using Steiner points. 1455-1462
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  Bernard De Baets, Saskia Janssens, Hans E. De Meyer:
  Meta-theorems on inequalities for scalar fuzzy set cardinalities. 1463-1476
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  Wenyi Zeng, Hongxing Li:
  Relationship between similarity measure and entropy of interval valued fuzzy sets. 1477-1484
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  Beloslav Riecan:
  On a problem of Radko Mesiar: General form of IF-probabilities. 1485-1490

Uncertainty theories

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  Giulianella Coletti, Barbara Vantaggi:
  Possibility theory: Conditional independence. 1491-1513
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  Joaquín Abellán, Manuel Gómez-Olmedo:
  Measures of divergence on credal sets. 1514-1531

Theoretical computer science

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  Werner Kuich, George Rahonis:
  Fuzzy regular languages over finite and infinite words. 1532-1549
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  José Javier Astrain, José Ramón González de Mendívil, José Ramón Garitagoitia:
  Fuzzy automata with epsilon-moves compute fuzzy measures between strings. 1550-1559
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  Björn Borchardt, Andreas Maletti, Branimir Seselja, Andreja Tepavcevic, Heiko Vogler:
  Cut sets as recognizable tree languages. 1560-1571

Correspondence

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  Yao Ouyang, Hongxia Sun, Jun Li:
  Some notes on V-homogeneity property of semiconormed fuzzy integrals. 1572-1575

Volume 157, Number 12, June 2006

Databases

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  Xiaohui Tang, Guoqing Chen:
  Equivalence and transformation of extended algebraic operators in fuzzy relational databases. 1581-1596
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  Zongmin Ma, Huaiqing Wang:
  STEP implementation of imperfect EXPRESS model in fuzzy object-oriented databases. 1597-1621
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  Patrick Bosc, Nadia Liétard, Olivier Pivert:
  About the processing of possibilistic queries involving a difference operation. 1622-1640

Data mining

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  Yen-Liang Chen, Tony Cheng-Kui Huang:
  A new approach for discovering fuzzy quantitative sequential patterns in sequence databases. 1641-1661

Granular computing

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  Yongchuan Tang, Jiacheng Zheng:
  Linguistic modelling based on semantic similarity relation among linguistic labels. 1662-1673

Applications

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  Hong-Zhong Huang, Ming Jian Zuo, Zhan-Quan Sun:
  Bayesian reliability analysis for fuzzy lifetime data. 1674-1686
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  Janice L. Pappas:
  Biological taxonomic problem solving using fuzzy decision-making analytical tools. 1687-1703
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  Jing Nie, Jiangchua Wen, Ji Luo, Xin He, Zheng Zhou:
  An adaptive fuzzy logic based secure routing protocol in mobile ad hoc networks. 1704-1712
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  Dobrila Petrovic, Ying Xie, Keith J. Burnham:
  Fuzzy decision support system for demand forecasting with a learning mechanism. 1713-1725

Volume 157, Number 13, July 2006

Clustering

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  Abdelhamid Bouchachia, Witold Pedrycz:
  Enhancement of fuzzy clustering by mechanisms of partial supervision. 1733-1759
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