Interval additive generators of interval t-norms and interval t-conorms (Q433045)

Interval-valued membership functions play a more and more important role in the recent development and generalization of fuzzy set theory. Similarly, this is the case with multicriteria decision making and related areas, including integrals as utility functions, among others. However, then the theory of aggregation of interval inputs became a hot topic. One of the most important classes of aggregation functions applied in the above-mentioned areas are triangular norms and conorms, and their subclasses generated by additive generators. Their deep study in the framework of interval inputs/outputs was initiated by G. Deschrijver. The paper under review summarizes the state of the art and brings an alternative approach to interval additive generators of interval t-norms and t-conorms. Note that the authors consider several partial orderings of intervals, and that their main results are based on the strict partial ordering \(\ll\) given by \([a,b] \ll [c,d]\) if and only if \(a < c\) and \(b < d\). This partial ordering was used to define pseudo-inverses of monotone interval functions, and finally to define additively generated interval functions, including interval t-norms and interval t-conorms. The classical duality between t-norms and t-conorms is shown to be preserved also in this new framework.