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Fuzzy relational equations are without doubt the most important inverse problems arising from fuzzy set theory, and in particular from fuzzy relational calculus. Indeed, the calculus of fuzzy relations is a powerful one, with applications in fuzzy control and fuzzy systems modelling in general, approximate reasoning, relational databases, clustering, etc. In this paper, fuzzy relational equations are approached from an order-theoretical point of view. It is shown how all inverse problems can be reduced to systems of polynomial lattice equations. The exposition is limited to the description of exact solutions of systems of sup-T equations, and analytical ways are presented for obtaining the complete solution set when working in a broad and interesting class of distributive lattices.
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De Baets, B. (2004). FREs: the ODEs and PDEs of the Fuzzy Modelling Paradigm. In: Nikravesh, M., Zadeh, L.A., Korotkikh, V. (eds) Fuzzy Partial Differential Equations and Relational Equations. Studies in Fuzziness and Soft Computing, vol 142. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-39675-8_8
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