NPTEL Syllabus

Fuzzy Sets and their

Applications - Web course
COURSE OUTLINE

NPTEL

Theory of Fuzzy Sets:

Classical Sets vs Fuzzy Sets (FS) Types of FS
Operations on FS Zadehs Extension Principle Fuzzy
Relations Fuzzy Relational Equations Possibility Theory
: Fuzzy Measures.

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Mathematics

Some Applications of Fuzzy Sets:

Approximate Reasoning Fuzzy Relational Inference Fuzzy Controllers Efficiency and Effectiveness of inference
schemes Functional Approximation capabilities.
NB:Course along the lines of the syllabus specified by UGC
as an optional course under MM 503 (a & b).
COURSE DETAIL
Module No.

Topic/s

Pre-requisites:
Basic knowledge of algebra and analysis at the level of
undergraduate studies

Lectures
Additional Reading:

Fuzzy Sets : Classical sets vs Fuzzy Sets

Basics
Need
for
fuzzy sets
Definition and Mathematical
representations Level Sets
F u z z y functions - Zadehs
Extension Principle

Operations on Operations on [0,1] Fuzzy

Fuzzy Sets
negation, triangular norms, tconorms, fuzzy implications,
Aggregation
Operations,
Fuzzy Functional Equations

Frank Hppner, Frank Klawonn, Rudolf Kruse,

Thomas Runkler, Fuzzy Cluster Analysis: Methods
for Classification, Data Analysis and Image
Recognition, Wiley Publishers, 1999.
E P Klement, R Mesiar and E. Pap, Triangular norms,
Kluwer Academic Press, Dordrecht, 2000.
M Grabisch et al., Aggregation Functions, Series Encyclopedia Of Mathematics And Its Applications,
Cambridge University Press, 2009
Hyperlinks:
1. www.ece.osu.edu/~passino/books.html

Fuzzy
Relations

Fuzzy Binary and n-ary

relations composition of
fuzzy relations Fuzzy
Equivalence
Relations

Fuzzy Compatibility Relations

Fuzzy Relational Equations

2. http://fuzzy.cs.uni-magdeburg.de/clusterbook/
3. www.mathworks.com/products/fuzzylogic/
4. www.abo.fi/~rfuller/fuzs.html
5. http://jfuzzylogic.sourceforge.net/html/index.html

Possibility
Theory

Fuzzy Measures Evidence

Theory Necessity and Belief
Measures

Probability
Measures
vs
Possibility
Measures

Approximate
Reasoning

Fuzzy Decision Making

Fuzzy Relational Inference
C o m p o s i t i o n a l Rule
Inference - Efficiency
Inference - Hierarchical

of
of

Fuzzy

Fuzzy If-Then Rule Base

Coordinators:
Dr. Balasubramaniam Jayaram
Department of MathematicsIIT Hyderabad

Controllers

Inference Engine TakagiSugeno Fuzzy Systems Function Approximation

References:
George J Klir and Bo Yuan, Fuzzy Sets and
Fuzzy Logic : Theory and Applications, Prentice
Hall NJ,1995.
H.J. Zimmermann, Fuzzy Set Theory and its
Applications, Allied Publishers, New Delhi, 1991.
Kevin M Passino and Stephen Yurkovich, Fuzzy
Control, Addison Wesley Longman, 1998.
Michal Baczynski and Balasubramaniam
Jayaram, Fuzzy Implications, Springer Verlag,
Heidelberg, 2008.
A joint venture by IISc and IITs, funded by MHRD, Govt of India

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