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Interval-valued algebras and fuzzy logics
In this chapter, we present a propositional calculus for several interval-valued fuzzy logics, i.e., logics having intervals as truth values. More precisely, the truth values are preferably subintervals of the unit interval. The idea behind it is that such an interval can model imprecise information. To compute the truth values of ‘p implies q’ and ‘p and q’, given the truth values of p and q, we use operations from residuated lattices. This truth-functional approach is similar to the methods developed for the well-studied fuzzy logics. Although the interpretation of the intervals as truth values expressing some kind of imprecision is a bit problematic, the purely mathematical study of the properties of interval-valued fuzzy logics and their algebraic semantics can be done without any problem. This study is the focus of this chapter
Canonical formulas for k-potent commutative, integral, residuated lattices
Canonical formulas are a powerful tool for studying intuitionistic and modal
logics. Actually, they provide a uniform and semantic way to axiomatise all
extensions of intuitionistic logic and all modal logics above K4. Although the
method originally hinged on the relational semantics of those logics, recently
it has been completely recast in algebraic terms. In this new perspective
canonical formulas are built from a finite subdirectly irreducible algebra by
describing completely the behaviour of some operations and only partially the
behaviour of some others. In this paper we export the machinery of canonical
formulas to substructural logics by introducing canonical formulas for
-potent, commutative, integral, residuated lattices (-).
We show that any subvariety of - is axiomatised by canonical
formulas. The paper ends with some applications and examples.Comment: Some typo corrected and additional comments adde
Quantale Modules and their Operators, with Applications
The central topic of this work is the categories of modules over unital
quantales. The main categorical properties are established and a special class
of operators, called Q-module transforms, is defined. Such operators - that
turn out to be precisely the homomorphisms between free objects in those
categories - find concrete applications in two different branches of image
processing, namely fuzzy image compression and mathematical morphology
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