Advances in Mathematical Physics
Volume 2015 (2015), Article ID 724647, 12 pages
http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2015/724647

Research Article

Similarity Measures of Sequence of Fuzzy Numbers and Fuzzy Risk Analysis

Zarife Zararsız

Department of Mathematics, Faculty of Art and Science, University of Nevşehir Hacı Bektaş Veli, 50300 Nevşehir, Turkey

Received 18 May 2015; Revised 21 July 2015; Accepted 22 July 2015

Academic Editor: Soheil Salahshour

Copyright © 2015 Zarife Zararsız. This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.

Abstract.

We present the methods to evaluate the similarity measures between sequence of triangular fuzzy numbers for making contributions to fuzzy risk analysis. Firstly, we calculate the COG (center of gravity) points of sequence of triangular fuzzy numbers. After, we present the methods to measure the degree of similarity between sequence of triangular fuzzy numbers. In addition, we give an example to compare the methods mentioned in the text. Furthermore, in this paper, we deal with the type fuzzy number. By defining the algebraic operations on the type fuzzy numbers we can solve the equations in the form , where and are fuzzy number. By this way, we can build an algebraic structure on fuzzy numbers. Additionally, the generalized difference sequence spaces of triangular fuzzy numbers , , and , consisting of all sequences such that is in the spaces , , and , have been constructed, respectively. Furthermore, some classes of matrix transformations from the space and to and are characterized, respectively, where is any sequence space.

1. Preliminaries, Background, and Notation

The concept of fuzzy sets and fuzzy set operations were first introduced by [1]. After his innovation many authors have studied various aspects of the fuzzy set theory and its applications, such as fuzzy topological spaces, similarity relations, and fuzzy mathematical programming. Matloka [2] introduced the class of bounded and convergent sequences of fuzzy numbers with respect to the Hausdorff metric. In [3], Nanda has studied the spaces of bounded and convergent sequences of fuzzy numbers and shown that these spaces are complete metric spaces.

Measuring the similarity between sequences of fuzzy numbers is very important subject of fuzzy decision making [4, 5] and fuzzy risk analysis [6]. In [7], a method for fuzzy risk analysis based on similarity measures of generalized fuzzy numbers is given. In [8], a method for measuring the rate of aggregative risk in software development is presented. Recently, some methods have been introduced to calculate the degree of similarity between fuzzy numbers [4–6]. However, these measures cannot determine the degree of similarity between sequences of fuzzy numbers. By generalizing these methods from fuzzy numbers to sequence of triangular fuzzy numbers, we give the methods to evaluate the similarity measures of sequence of triangular fuzzy numbers. In this paper, we also calculate the COG (center of gravity) points of a sequence of triangular fuzzy numbers.

It will not be right to regard this paper as a copy of classic summability theory because both a big generalization and definitions of fuzzy zero are presented in this paper. Therefore, the readers are advised to take these into consideration while reading the paper.

Some important problems on sequence spaces of fuzzy numbers can be ordered as follows: (1) construct a sequence space of fuzzy numbers and compute -dual, -dual, and -dual, (2) find some isomorphic spaces of it, (3) give some theorems about matrix transformations on sequence space of fuzzy numbers, and (4) study some inclusion problems and other properties.

In the present paper, we will define matrix domain of sequence spaces of triangular fuzzy numbers and introduce the sequence spaces of fuzzy numbers , , and . Additionally, we redefine fuzzy identity elements according to addition and multiplication for constructing an algebraic structure on the type sets of fuzzy numbers.

The rest of our paper is organized as follows.

In Section 2, some basic definitions and theorems related to the fuzzy numbers are given. In Section 3, we have introduced generalized difference sequence space of triangular fuzzy numbers and proved some inclusion relations on these sequence spaces. It is also established in Section 3 that the sequence spaces of triangular fuzzy numbers showed by , , and are linearly isomorphic to the spaces , , and , respectively. Finally, in Section 3, it is proved that the spaces , , and are complete. Section 4 is devoted to the calculation of the - and -duals of the spaces and . In Section 5, some classes of matrix transformations from the space and to and are characterized, respectively, where is any sequence space. In Section 6, we review the COG points of a sequence of fuzzy numbers [7] and existing similarity measures of fuzzy numbers [4–7]. In Section 7, we generalize the use of similarity measure methods to sequence of triangular fuzzy numbers. Furthermore, we use an example to compare the similarity measure methods between three sets of sequences of triangular fuzzy numbers. In the final section, we consider the similarity measure methods of sequence of triangular fuzzy numbers to deal with the fuzzy risk analysis problems.

In this section, we recall some of the basic definitions and notions in the theory of fuzzy numbers. Let us suppose that , , and are the set of all positive integers, all real numbers, and all bounded and closed intervals on the real line , respectively. For define the following metric:

It can easily be seen that defines a metric on and the pair is a complete metric space [9]. Let be a nonempty set. According to Zadeh a fuzzy subset of is a nonempty subset of for some function [10]. Consider a function as a subset of a nonempty base space and denote the family of all such functions or fuzzy sets by . Let us suppose that the function satisfies the following properties:

(1) is normal, that is, there exists an such that .(2) is fuzzy convex, that is, for any and , .(3) is upper semicontinuous.(4)The closure of , denoted by , is compact.

Then, the function is called a fuzzy number [11].

The properties (1)–(4) imply that, for each , the -cut set of the fuzzy number defined by is in . That is, the equality holds for each . We denote the set of all fuzzy numbers by . Any vector subspace of , the space of all complex valued sequences, is called a sequence space. We write , and for the classical sequence spaces of all bounded, convergent, null, and absolutely -summable sequences, respectively. For simplicity in notation, the summation without limits runs from to , , , , through all the text.

Let us consider any triangular type fuzzy number , as follows. If the function

is the membership function of the triangular fuzzy number , then can be represented with the notation

where and . If , then the fuzzy number is called symmetric fuzzy number and if , then is a real number. In general, the fuzzy number is called -type fuzzy number. After here, we deal with the set of triangular -type fuzzy numbers represented as which includes the classic triangular fuzzy numbers, through the text. Any element of the set will be denoted by . Additionally, for brevity, we call triangular -type fuzzy numbers triangular fuzzy numbers.

It means that, set of all -type fuzzy number is defined as in the following:

The notations are called first, middle, and end points of triangular fuzzy number , respectively. In addition to this, the notation means that the height of the fuzzy number is 1 at the point . For every , the sets are different from each other and every element in the form of these sets belongs to . Another mean of the (4) is that for every , there is no unique set of fuzzy numbers. Furthermore, there are infinitely-many sets of fuzzy numbers and these sets are different from each other according to structure of their elements. So, we can use the most appropriate one of these sets for our problem. In this study, we will take .

Sometimes, the representation of fuzzy numbers with -cut sets induces errors according to algebraic operations. For example, if is any fuzzy number, then , , is not equal to zero as expected in the classic mean. For avoiding this kind of problems we define fuzzy zero represented by as in the following section.

2. Algebraic Structure of the Set

Let and . Let us define addition, substraction, multiplication, division, and scalar multiplication on , respectively, as follows:

where is nonzero fuzzy number and

Let ; then . It means that is considered as the identity element of according to operation which is given in (5). Therefore, we say that the inverse of the fuzzy number is equal to , according to addition and the determines a fuzzy number. With this idea, we can solve equations in the form . From here fuzzy zeros of the sets are as follows:

This says to us that fuzzy zero is different for each element of the set .

Theorem 1. All sets in the form are linear spaces according to algebraic operations (5) and (9), where and .

The second important matter is the topology on the set . Şengönül [12] has constructed a topology on by using the metric defined as follows:

We can easily show that the set is a complete metric space with the metric .

Clearly, the representation (3) for is unique, and on the contrary there is a unique for every . We know that, generally in the practical applications, the spread of fuzziness should not be very large. So, the value of should be as small as possible. Theoretically, the value “ should be small” not necessary but it has to be in practical applications. For example, the “approximately 1” can be taken as but in the applications, generally, “approximately 1” is taken as , . This choice is more accurate than .

Furthermore, it must be emphasized that a fuzzy number is determined according to specific processes. For example, let and be two different specific systems. Then, if is “approximately 1” for the system then “approximately 1” may not be in the same sense for another system . So, algebraic properties of the systems and are different. This can be explained as follows.

Let us suppose that the spread of left and right fuzziness of every number is equal to in . Then fuzzy zero is equal to for the system and this fuzzy zero is unique for the system .

The function is called a sequence of triangular fuzzy numbers and is represented by , [13].

Let us denote the set of all sequences of triangular fuzzy numbers by ; that is,

where and for all [14].

The , , and are called first, middle, and end points of general term of a sequence of fuzzy numbers, respectively. Each subspace of is called a sequence space of fuzzy numbers.

We define the classical sets , , , and consisting of the bounded, convergent, null, and absolutely -summable sequences of fuzzy numbers, respectively, similar to [12]; it means that

We should emphasize here that the sequence spaces of fuzzy numbers , , , and can be reduced to the classical sequence spaces of real numbers , and , respectively in the special case , where and . So, the properties and results related to the sequence spaces of , , , and are more general and more useful than the corresponding implications of the spaces , and , respectively.

Definition 2. Let ; is identity element of according to addition and algebraic operations in the sense of (5) and (9). The function is called norm on the set if it has the following properties:

(9).(10), .(11).

If the function satisfies (9)–(11) then is called normed sequence space of the triangular fuzzy numbers. If is complete with respect to the norm then is called complete normed sequence space of the triangular fuzzy numbers.

Lemma 3. The sets , and are complete normed sequence spaces with the norm defined as follows:

where is in any sets of .

Now, let and be two spaces of triangular fuzzy valued sequences and let be an infinite matrix of positive real numbers , where Then, we say that defines a real-matrix mapping from to and we denote it by writing , if for every sequence the sequence is in where

and the series , , are convergent for all By , we denote the class of matrices such that . Thus, if and only if the series on the right side of (15) are convergent for each and every , and we have for all .

Let be a sequence space of triangular fuzzy numbers. Then, the set of sequences of triangular fuzzy numbers, defined as follows, is called the domain of an infinite matrix in :

Let be nonzero real numbers for each and define the band matrix by

Here, and are the convergent sequences.

It is easy to calculate that the inverse of the generalized difference matrix is given by

3. The Generalized Difference Sequence Spaces , , and

In this section, we wish to introduce the , , and spaces as the set of all sequences such that -transforms of them are in the spaces , , and , respectively; that is,

We should emphasize here that the sequence spaces , , and of triangular fuzzy numbers can be reduced to the sets , and , respectively, in the case for all , in the structure of generalized difference matrix. So, the properties and results related to the sequence spaces of , , and are more general and more extensive than the corresponding consequences of the spaces , and , respectively.

Let us define the sequence of fuzzy numbers which will be constantly used as the -transform of a sequence of fuzzy numbers ; that is,

where , for all .

Now, we may begin with the following theorem which is essential in the text.

Theorem 4. The sequence spaces , , and are linearly isomorphic to the spaces , , and , respectively; that is, , , and .

Proof. Since the others can be similarly proved, we consider only the case . To prove this, we should show the existence of a linear bijection between the spaces and . Consider the transformation defined , with the notation of (20), from to by The equality , where , is clear. Let us suppose that ; then,

That is, has the property homogeneity. Thus, is linear.
Let us take any and represent the sequence using as follows:

where

Then, we have

That is, is norm preserving. Consequently, the spaces and are linearly isomorphic. It is clear here that if the spaces and are, respectively, replaced by the spaces and , and , then we obtain the fact that and This completes the proof.

Theorem 5. The sets , , and are complete normed sequence space of the triangular fuzzy numbers with the norm defined by

Proof. It was seen that, in Theorem 4, the sequence spaces of triangular fuzzy numbers , , and are linearly isomorphic to the spaces , , and , respectively. Additionally, since the matrix is normal (see, [15]) and , , and are complete module spaces, it is clear that the sequence spaces , , and are complete normed spaces with the norm defined in (25).

Theorem 6. Let be a sequence of triangular fuzzy numbers. If as , then as It means that the matrix is regular.

Proof. Let be a sequence of fuzzy numbers and as . Then for a given there exists a positive integer such that

Therefore, we can write

If we take , then we see that . That is,

holds. This completes the proof.

Theorem 7. The inclusions and strictly hold.

Proof. To prove the validity of the inclusion , let us take any . Then, bearing in mind the regularity of the method (see, Theorem 6), we immediately observe that which means that . Hence, the inclusion holds. One can see by analogy that the strict inclusion also holds. This completes the proof.

Let and be an infinite matrix of fuzzy numbers and consider the following expressions:

In [16], some matrix classes are characterized by Talo and Başar which are given in the following lemma.

Lemma 8 (see [16]). The following statements hold:

(12), , if and only if (29) holds.(13) if and only if (32) holds.(14) if and only if (29) and (31) hold.(15) if and only if (29) and (31) hold with for all .(16) if and only if (30) and (31) hold.(17) if and only if (30) and (31) hold with for all .(18) if and only if (29), (33), and (31) hold with for all .

Analogously to Talo and Başar, we can prove the following propositions.

Proposition 9. if and only if (29) and (31) also hold with for all .

4. Real Duals of the Spaces , , and

In this section, we state and prove the theorems determining the - and -duals of the spaces , , and . For the sequence spaces and , define the set by

where denotes all real valued sequences space. With the notation of (35), - and -duals of a sequence space , which are respectively denoted by and , are defined by , and . We will use a technique, in the proof of Theorems 10 and 12, which is used in [17–19].

Theorem 10. The -dual of the spaces , , and is the set

Proof. Since the proof is similar for the rest of the spaces, we determine only -dual of the set . Let and define the matrix via the sequence by

Bearing in mind relation (20) we immediately derive that

From (38) we realize that whenever if and only if whenever . Then, by considering Part (12) of Lemma 8, we have

which yields the consequence that .

Lemma 11 (see [20], Theorem ). Let be defined via a sequence and the inverse matrix of the triangle matrix by

for all Then

Theorem 12. Define the sets and by

Then, And .

Proof. It is clear from Lemmas 8 and 11.

5. Matrix Transformations

For the first time, Lorentz introduced the concept of dual summability methods for the limitation which depends on a Stieltjes integral and passed to the discontinuous matrix methods by means of a suitable step function [21]. Later, many authors, such as Başar [22], Başar and Çolak [23], Kuttner [24], Lorentz and Zeller [25], and Şengönül and Başar [19] worked on the dual summability methods.

Let us suppose that the set is any of the sets , , and . In this section, we characterize the matrix mappings from into any given sequence space of triangular fuzzy numbers via the concept of the dual summability methods and vice versa, so we call it the sequential generalized difference dual summability methods. Let us suppose that the sequences and are connected with (20) and let -transform of the sequence be and let the -transform of the sequence be ; that is,

It is clear here that the method is applied to the -transform of the sequence while the method is directly applied to the terms of the sequence . So, the methods and are essentially different (see, [22]).

Let us assume the existence of the matrix product which is a much weaker assumption than the conditions on the matrix belonging to any matrix class, in general. If becomes , under the application of the formal summation by parts, then the methods and in (43) are called sequential generalized difference dual type matrices. This leads us to the fact that exists and is equal to and formally holds. This statement is equivalent to the following relation between the elements of the matrices and :

for all . Furthermore one can see that easily reduces , as in the following:

Now we may give the following theorem concerning to the sequential generalized difference dual matrices.

Theorem 13. Let and be the sequential generalized difference dual type matrices and let be any given sequence space. Then, if and only if and .

Proof. Suppose that and are sequential generalized difference dual type matrices which means that (44) holds. Additionally, let be any given sequence space and take into account that the spaces and are linearly isomorphic.
Let and take any . Then, is equal to and which yields that for each Hence exists for each and we have the following equation;

Subsequently, it is clear from (44) that which leads us to the consequence that .
Conversely, suppose that and take any . Then, exists. Therefore, we obtain from the following equality as that and this shows that :

This completes the proof.

Theorem 14. Suppose that the elements of the infinite matrices and are connected with the relation

and is any given sequence space. Then, if and only if

Proof. Let and consider the following equality:

Which yields that if and only if This step completes the proof.

Now, right here, we give the following propositions which are obtained from Lemma 8 and Theorems 13 and 14.

Proposition 15. Let be an infinite matrix of real numbers. Then one has the following:

(1) if and only if for each and

 holds for all .(2) if and only if (50) holds and also holds for all and

Proposition 16. Let be an infinite matrix of real numbers. Then, if and only if

Proposition 17. Let be an infinite matrix of real numbers. Then, if and only if

with and holds.

6. Determining the Center of Gravity of Sequence Space of Triangular Fuzzy Numbers and Similarity Measures between Fuzzy Numbers

In this section, we give the COG points of a sequence space of triangular fuzzy numbers by means of [7]. Let us suppose that is a sequence of triangular fuzzy number. Then, the values and of the COG points of are presented as follows:

Based on (54) and (55), we can determine the COG points of a sequence of triangular fuzzy number as .

Let us suppose that and are two classical fuzzy numbers where and ; then the degree of similarity between and is calculated by [6] as in the following:

where .

In [5], Lee proposed a similarity measure for classical fuzzy numbers and used the similarity measure to deal with fuzzy opinions for group decision making, where the degree of similarity between the triangular fuzzy numbers and can be calculated as follows:

and where is the universe of discourse. The larger the value of , the higher the similarity between the components of .

In [4], Hsieh and Chen defined a similarity measure method where the degree of similarity between classical fuzzy numbers and can be given as in the following:

where and represent graded mean integration components of and , respectively.

In addition to these similarity measure methods, S.-J. Chen and S.-M. Chen [7] introduced a simple center of gravity method represented as SCGM, to determine the center of gravity point of a generalized fuzzy number by using the concept of geometry. Besides, they gave a method to evaluate the degree of similarity between generalized fuzzy numbers.

In the present paper we generalize these formulas to sequence spaces of triangular fuzzy numbers. By this method, we will fill the big gap in the literature.

7. Similarity Measures between Sequence Spaces of Triangular Fuzzy Numbers

Assume that there are two sequences of triangular fuzzy numbers, and , , ; then the degree of similarity between the sequences of triangular fuzzy numbers and can be calculated as in the following:

where and the notion of shows the highest membership degree of fuzzy number . For all , is considered as because of the validity of fuzzy number conditions, through all the text. The function is called similarity degree between sequences of fuzzy sets and . If , then we say that is completely similar to the sequence ; if , then we say that the sequence is -similar to the sequence ; if we can say that is not similar to .

Now, we introduce another similarity measure method for sequence of triangular fuzzy numbers as follows:

We take , , for examples, through all the text.

One of the other similarity measure methods for sequence of triangular fuzzy numbers is given as follows:

In [7], S.-J. Chen and S.-M. Chen introduced a simple center of gravity method to determine the center of gravity point of a generalized fuzzy number by using the concept of geometry. By means of this method, we will generalize this formula to the sequence of fuzzy numbers as follows:

where and are calculated by (55) and since the fuzzy number property and are defined as follows:

where and are the lengths of the bases of the th place of the sequence of triangular fuzzy numbers and , respectively, defined as follows by means of [7]:

Next, we deal with three sets of sequence spaces of triangular fuzzy numbers to compare similarity measures mentioned above. The calculation results are listed in Table 1. Now, we write the equations of three sets of sequences of triangular fuzzy numbers as in the following:

 SET I:

 SET II:

 SET III:

Table 1: A comparison between similarity measure methods.

Similarity measures
Sets of sequence of
triangular fuzzy numbers

SET I
SET II
SET III

Lee’s Method [5]
0.333
0.166
0.5

Chen and Lin’s Method [6]
0.6
0.5
0.9

Hsieh and Chen’s Method [4]
0.833
0.769
0.909

Chen and Chen’s Method [7]
0.48
0.35
0.54

We can give a comparison of the computing conclusions of the similarity measures of the above equations with the methods mentioned above as in Table 1.

8. Fuzzy Risk Analysis Based on the Similarity Measure of Sequence of Triangular Fuzzy Numbers

Fuzzy weighted mean method is used in [26, 27] for introducing fuzzy risk analysis. According to [26] for every , subcomponent is measured by two evaluating items represented as and that denote the probability of failure of the subcomponents and severity of loss of the subcomponents , respectively, and . Kangari and Riggs [26] and Schmucker [27] use the linguistic terms (“absolutely high,” “fairly-high,” “high,” “medium,” “low,” “fairly-low,” and “absolutely-low”) for determining the values of and . In [7], S.-J. Chen and S.-M. Chen use nine-member linguistic terms based on [28, 29] to represent the linguistic terms in their paper. We show the linguistic terms and sequence of triangular fuzzy numbers in Table 3 and generalize and to sequences and , respectively. In addition to these, we present the algorithm for fuzzy sequence risk analysis by means of [7] as follows.

Step 1. Use the fuzzy weighted mean method to integrate the evaluating items and of sequence of each subcomponent , where , to get the total risk of the sequence of component shown as follows:

Step 2. Use the similarity measure (62) to measure the degree of similarity between the sequences of triangular fuzzy number and Table 3 includes each linguistic term used for classifying the sequence space of triangular fuzzy numbers.
In the following, we use an example presented in [27].

Example 18. Let us consider that the component consists of three subcomponents , , , as shown in Figure 1. Now, we would like to measure the probability of failure of the component . Table 2 shows the linguistic values of the two evaluating items and , respectively, similar to [27], where the linguistic values are shown by sequence of triangular fuzzy numbers in Table 3.
In the following, we use the proposed fuzzy risk analysis method to consider the fuzzy risk analysis problem.
Step 1. By considering , , , (68), and Tables 2 and 3, the probability of failure of the component can be measured as in Table 3.

Table 2: Linguistic values of and of the subcomponents , , and .

Subcomponents ()
Linguistic values of
severity of loss ()
Linguistic values of
probability of failure ()

Low
Low

Fairly-high
Medium

Very-low
High

Table 3: Linguistic terms and sequence of triangular fuzzy numbers.

A nine-member linguistic term set

Linguistic terms
Sequence of triangular fuzzy numbers

Absolutely-low

Very-low

Low

Fairly-low

Medium

Fairly-high

High

Very-high

Absolutely-high

Figure 1: Structure of risk analysis.

Consider = = .

Step 2. We determine COG points of the nine-member linguistic term set shown in Table 4 by using (54) and (55) and by using (64) we obtain the base of all the sequences of triangular fuzzy numbers as . In the same way, we can get the COG point of the sequence of triangular fuzzy number , where . Based on (63) and Table 4, we can see that the values , , , , , , , , and are equal to 1. And .

Table 4: Linguistic terms and correspondence to COG Terms.

The COG points of the
nine-member linguistic term set

Linguistic terms
COG points

Absolutely-low
COG (absolutely-low) = (0.2, 0.33)

Very-low
COG (very-low) = (0.22, 0.33)

Low
COG (low) = (0.38, 0.33)

Fairly-low
COG (fairly-low) = (0.56, 0.33)

Medium
COG (medium) = (0.78, 0.33)

Fairly-high
COG (fairly-high) = (1, 0.33)

High
COG (high) = (1.12, 0.33)

Very-high
COG (very-high) = (1.18, 0.33)

Absolutely-high
COG (absolutely-high) = (1.2, 0.33)

By using (62), the degree of similarity between the sequence of triangular fuzzy number and the linguistic terms shown in Table 2 can be evaluated as follows: , , , , , , , , . Because has the largest value, the sequence of triangular fuzzy number is translated into the linguistic term “medium,” where the degree of similarity is . That is, the probability of failure of the component is medium.

Conflict of Interests

The author declares that there is no conflict of interests regarding the publication of this paper.

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