Type‐Reduction of General Type‐2 Fuzzy Sets: The Type‐1 OWA Approach

For general type‐2 fuzzy sets, the defuzzification process is very complex and the exhaustive direct method of implementing type‐reduction is computationally expensive and turns out to be impractical. This has inevitably hindered the development of type‐2 fuzzy inferencing systems in real‐world applications. The present situation will not be expected to change, unless an efficient and fast method of deffuzzifying general type‐2 fuzzy sets emerges. Type‐1 ordered weighted averaging (OWA) operators have been proposed to aggregate expert uncertain knowledge expressed by type‐1 fuzzy sets in decision making. In particular, the recently developed alpha‐level approach to type‐1 OWA operations has proven to be an effective tool for aggregating uncertain information with uncertain weights in real‐time applications because its complexity is of linear order. In this paper, we prove that the mathematical representation of the type‐reduced set (TRS) of a general type‐2 fuzzy set is equivalent to that of a special case of type‐1 OWA operator. This relationship opens up a new way of performing type reduction of general type‐2 fuzzy sets, allowing the use of the alpha‐level approach to type‐1 OWA operations to compute the TRS of a general type‐2 fuzzy set. As a result, a fast and efficient method of computing the centroid of general type‐2 fuzzy sets is realized. The experimental results presented here illustrate the effectiveness of this method in conducting type reduction of different general type‐2 fuzzy sets.

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