Monotonic Similarity Measures of Interval-Valued Fuzzy Sets and Their Applications

摘要

A similarity measure is a measure that indicates the degree of similarity between two objects. The purpose of this work is to investigate the monotonicity properties and applications of similarity measures on interval-valued fuzzy sets. Through analyzing the intuitions of similarities, three kinds of monotonic similarity measures are defined. Furthermore, their properties and relationships with entropy and inclusion measure are investigated and discussed. Finally, some applications of the proposed monotonic similarity measures, such as pattern recognition, medical recognition, and medical diagnosis are presented.