Metric properties of fuzzy partitions

DOI10.1016/0165-0114(95)00203-0MaRDI QIDQ1367486zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Namik M. Kasumov

Publication date 29 April 1998

Published in Fuzzy Sets and Systems (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://doi.org/10.1016/0165-0114(95)00203-0

zbMATH Keywords

decomposition of partitionsfuzzy partitions

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Approximations and expansions (41A99) Classification and discrimination; cluster analysis (statistical aspects) (62H30) Artificial intelligence (68T99) Social and behavioral sciences: general topics (91C99) Fuzzy sets and logic (in connection with information, communication, or circuits theory) (94D05)

Review text

Fuzzy partitions can be represented as weighted sums of classical partitions. \textit{J. C. Bezdek} and \textit{J. D. Harris} [J. Math. Anal. Appl. 67, 490-512 (1979; Zbl 0411.68056)] described a ``minimax decomposition of any fuzzy partition into such a weighted sum claiming to get shortest sums in this way. The author disproves this claim. The result is part of a study of the space of fuzzy partitions w.r.t. their decomposition behaviour, e.g. yielding the results that the minimax decomposition has some suitable robustness, that however there is instability in decomposition length in the sense that the set of fuzzy partitions with ``short decompositions is nowhere dense in the space of all fuzzy partitions, and that under suitable assumptions there is even no uniquenes of shortest decompositions. The meaning of these results for the analysis of fuzzy data is also discussed.

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