On interactive fuzzy numbers

doi:10.1016/S0165-0114(03)00180-5

Fuzzy Sets and Systems

Volume 143, Issue 3, 1 May 2004, Pages 355-369

Dedicated to Professor Christer Carlsson

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Abstract

In this paper we will introduce a measure of interactivity between marginal distributions of a joint possibility distribution C as the expected value of the interactivity relation between the γ-level sets of its marginal distributions.

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