Abstract:
The shadow of a fuzzy set is defined as the result of projecting it onto a hyperplane. It is shown that under such projections the properties of convexity and concavity are invariant and the degree of separability of two fuzzy sets is not increased. The notion of a bound of a fuzzy set is introduced, which is useful when a set has to be estimated from the knowledge of its shadows.
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