A note on the correlation and information energy of interval-valued fuzzy numbers (Q5951769)

This short, technical note shows that several results given in [\textit{G. Wang} and \textit{X. Li}, Fuzzy Sets Syst. 103, 169-175 (1999; Zbl 1017.94034)] concerning parameters of interval-valued fuzzy numbers are not valid in their necessity parts. All these errors are caused by a false claim of Wang and Li that an upper semicontinuous non-negative function \(f\) defined on \([a,b]\) with zero Riemann integral over \([a,b]\) is necessarily the zero function on \([a,b]\). The present paper brings several counterexamples violating original results of Wang and Li. Moreover, it indicates the way for correcting all violated results, restricting all considerations to the interval-valued fuzzy numbers with continuous lower and upper fuzzy sets.