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A crisp membership function for the determination of volatile liquids. 

Fuzzy and Crisp Membership Values in the "Volatile" Set for Some Liquids... 

Chemical Normal Boiling Point/°C Volatile (Fuzzy Membership) Volatile (Crisp Membership)... 

Table 8.1 compares the fuzzy membership and crisp membership values in the volatile set for a few liquids (Figure 8.5). 

Fuzzy sets and fuzzy logic. Fuzzy sets differ from the normal crisp sets in the fact that their elements have partial membership (represented by a value between 0 an 1) in the set. Fuzzy logic differs from the binary logic by the fact that the truth values are represented by fuzzy sets. 

A conventional set which contains members that satisfy such precise properties concerning theii set membership is called a crisp set. 

An important property of a fuzzy set is its cardinality. While for crisp sets the cardinality is simply the number of elements in a set, the cardinality of a fuzzy set A, CardA, gives the sum of the values of the membership function of A, as in Eq. (9). 

The principle of applying fuzzy logic to matching of spectra is that, given a sample spectrum and a collection of reference spectra, in a first step the reference spectra are unified and fuzzed, i.e., around each characteristic line at a certain wavenumber k, a certain fuzzy interval [/ o - Ak, + Afe] is laid. The resulting fuzzy set is then intersected with the crisp sample spectrum. A membership function analogous to the one in Figure 9-25 is applied. If a line of the sample spec-... 

Conventional set theory distinguishes between those elements that are members of a set and those that are not, there being very clear, or crisp boundaries. Figure 10.2 shows the crisp set medium temperature . Temperatures between 20 and 30 °C he within the crisp set, and have a membership value of one. 

The degree of membership or the membership value of an object in a set measures the extent to which the object belongs in that set. For crisp sets, the only possible membership values are 0 and 1 (Figure 8.1). A membership of 1 tells us that the object is a member of that set alone, while a membership of 0 shows that it has no membership in the set. 

Thus, propanol, C3H70H, has a membership of 1 in the three-carbon molecule class, while ethanol, C2H5OH, has a membership of 0 in the same class. As the membership in a crisp set must take one of only two possible values, Boolean (two-valued) logic can be used to manipulate crisp sets. If all the knowledge that we have can be described by placing objects in sets that are separated by crisp divisions, the sort of rule-based approach to the development of an expert system described in the previous chapter is appropriate. 

Partitioning methods make a crisp or hard assignment of each object to exactly one cluster. In contrast, fuzzy clustering allows for a fuzzy assignment meaning that an observation is not assigned to exclusively one cluster but at some part to all clusters. This fuzzy assignment is expressed by membership coefficients m(/ for each... 

A different approach to threshold selection is based on fuzzy logic [14], By adopting this approach, the value that represents the crisp discriminant between faults and disturbances is replaced by a fuzzy set, characterized by a membership function. Hence, a yes-no decision is replaced by a continuous indication of the faulty level. 

Fuzzy sets are defined on any given universal set by functions analogous to characteristic functions of crisp sets. These functions are called membership functions. To define a fuzzy set A on a given universal set X, the membership function of A assigns to each element jc of a number in the unit interval [0,1]. This number is viewed as the degree of membership of jc in A. 

Contrary to the symbolic role of numbers 1 and 0 in characteristic functions of crisp sets, numbers assigned to relevant objects by membership functions of fuzzy sets have a numerical significance. This significance is preserved when crisp sets are viewed (from the standpoint of fuzzy set theory) as special fuzzy sets. 

Among the most important concepts associated with fuzzy sets are the concepts of an a-cut and a strong a-cut. Given a fuzzy set A defined on X and a number a in the unit interval [0,1], the a-cut of A, denoted by °A, is the crisp set that consists of all elements of A whose membership degrees in A are greater than or equal to a that is,... 

Although the usual quantization is mathematically convenient, it completely ignores uncertainties induced by unavoidable measurement errors around the boundaries between the individual intervals. This is highly unrealistic. Quantization forced by the limited resolution of the measuring instrument involved can be made more realistic by replacing the crisp intervals with fuzzy intervals or fuzzy numbers. This is illustrated for our example in Fig. 4b. Fuzzy sets are in this example fuzzy numbers expressed by the shown triangular membership functions, which express the linguistic... 

In all other cases, the fuzzy average Ff, of a family F of crisp sets is a genuine fuzzy set, since the average in definition (199) is over the necessarily binary membership function values for crisp sets, and if not all of the equations in Eq. (200) hold, for example, if... 

One of the most important tools in applications of fuzzy set theory is the concept of linguistic variables (LV). These are groups of fuzzy sets with (partially) overlapping membership functions over a common (crisp) basic variable x. To represent several classes within an LV, the membership functions should cover all the relevant definition space of the basic variable x. The overlaps of these functions define the fuzziness. A linguistic variable L, classified by n fuzzy sets Aj, can be defined as... 

The one-to-one correspondence between the NMR signals and the carbon atoms and the assignment of possibility values through the membership function to each signal transforms the crisp set of vertices V from definition (3) of the graph into a fuzzy set forming a fuzzy molecular graph. 

Commonly in nonhierarchical cluster analysis, one starts with an initial partitioning of objects to the different clusters. After that, the membership of the objects to the clusters, for example, to the cluster centroids, is determined and the objects are newly partitioned. We consider here a general method for nonhierarchical clustering that can be used for both crisp (classical) and fuzzy clustering, the c-means algorithm. 

In the case of a crisp set, the membership value is either 0 or 1. For fuzzy sets, the membership to an object can assume values in... 

The membership of n objects to the clusters are either crisp or fuzzy, that is,... 

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