Goguen Categories: A Categorical Approach to L-fuzzy Relations

✍ Scribed by Michael Winter

• Publisher: Springer
• Year: 2007
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 217
• Series: Trends in Logic 25
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

Goguen categories extend the relational calculus and its categorical formalization to the fuzzy world. Starting from the fundamental concepts of sets, binary relations and lattices this book introduces several categorical formulations of an abstract theory of relations such as allegories, Dedekind categories and related structures. It is shown that neither theory is sufficiently rich to describe basic operations on fuzzy relations. The book then introduces Goguen categories and provides a comprehensive study of these structures including their representation theory, and the definability of norm-based operations.

The power of the theory is demonstrated by a comprehensive example. A certain Goguen category is used to specify and to develop a fuzzy controller. Based on its abstract description as well as certain desirable properties and their formal proofs, a verified controller is derived without compromising the - sometimes - intuitive choice of norm-based operations by fuzzy engineers.

✦ Table of Contents

Front Matter....Pages i-xii
Sets, Relations, And Functions....Pages 1-3
Lattices....Pages 5-41
L-Fuzzy Relations....Pages 43-54
Categories Of Relations....Pages 55-92
Categories Of L-Fuzzy Relations....Pages 93-168
Fuzzy Controllers In Goguen Categories....Pages 169-195
Back Matter....Pages 197-206

✦ Subjects

Logic