Novel, useful, and effective definitions for fuzzy linguistic hedges

Chandramohan, Aarthi; Rao, M. V. C.

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Volume 2006 | Article ID 046546 | https://doi.org/10.1155/DDNS/2006/46546

Novel, useful, and effective definitions for fuzzy linguistic hedges

Aarthi Chandramohan¹and M. V. C. Rao²

Received12 Dec 2005

Revised15 Apr 2006

Accepted25 Apr 2006

Published06 Sept 2006

Abstract

The main emphasis of this paper is on fuzzy linguistic hedging, used to modify membership functions. This paper investigates the issues of obtaining new definitions for hedges which exceed the traditional definitions given by Zadeh (and others), particularly seeing that the effect of applying these hedges does not cross beyond the reasonable limits of membership values [0,1] and is still meaningful from the point of view of magnitude of membership value and hence be really effective for an application. Some of the most commonly used hedges are presented, these hedges are very, positively, negatively, slightly more, and slightly less. The effects of these hedges on numeric examples are charted.

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Copyright © 2006 Aarthi Chandramohan and M. V. C. Rao. This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.

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