The modification (relaxation or intensification) of the antecedent or the consequent in a fuzzy "If, Then" conditional is an important asset for an expert in order to agree with it. The usual method to modify fuzzy propositions is the use of Zadeh's quantifiers based on powers of t-norms. However, the invariance of the truth value of the fuzzy conditional would be a desirable property when both the antecedent and the consequent are modified using the same quantifier. In this paper, a novel family of fuzzy implication functions based on powers of continuous t-norms which ensure the aforementioned property is presented. Other important additional properties are analyzed and from this study, it is proved that they do not intersect the most well-known classes of fuzzy implication functions.
In this paper, the fuzzy morphological gradients from the fuzzy mathematical morphologies based on t-norms and conjunctive uninorms are deeply analyzed in order to establish which pair of conjunction and fuzzy implications are optimal, in accordance with their performance in edge detection applications. A novel three-step algorithm based on the fuzzy morphology is proposed. The comparison is performed by means of the so-called Pratt's figure of merit. In addition, a statistical analysis is carried out to study the relationship between the different configurations and to establish a classification of the conjunctions and implications considered. Both the objective measure and the statistical analysis conclude that the pairs nilpotent minimum t-norm and the KleeneDienes implication, and the idempotent uninorm obtained with the classical negation as a generator and its residual implication, are the best configurations in this approach, because they also obtain competitive results with respect to other approaches.
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