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University of Texas at El Paso

2007

Departmental Technical Reports (CS)

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Why Intervals? Why Fuzzy Numbers? Towards A New Justification, Vladik Kreinovich Apr 2007

Why Intervals? Why Fuzzy Numbers? Towards A New Justification, Vladik Kreinovich

Departmental Technical Reports (CS)

The purpose of this paper is to present a new characterization of the set of all intervals (and of the corresponding set of fuzzy numbers). This characterization is based on several natural properties useful in mathematical modeling; the main of these properties is the necessity to be able to combine (fuse) several pieces of knowledge.