A Binary Intuitionistic Fuzzy Relation Some New Results, a General Factorization, and Two Properties of Strict Components.pdfVIP

Hindawi Publishing Corporation International Journal of Mathematics and Mathematical Sciences Volume 2009, Article ID 580918, 38 pages doi:10.1155/2009/580918 Research Article A Binary Intuitionistic Fuzzy Relation: Some New Results, a General Factorization, and Two Properties of Strict Components ´ 1 2 3 Louis Aime Fono, Gilbert Njanpong Nana, Maurice Salles, and Henri Gwet4 1 Departement de Mathematiques et Informatique, Faculte des Sciences, Universite de Douala, ´ ´ ´ ´ B.P. 24157 Douala, Cameroon 2 Laboratoire de Mathematiques Appliquees aux Sciences Sociales, Departement de Mathematiques, ´ ´ ´ ´ Faculte des Sciences, Universite de Yaounde I, B.P. 15396 Yaounde, Cameroon ´ ´ ´ ´ 3 MRSH, University of Caen, CREM-UMR 6211, CNRS, 14032 Caen Cedex, France 4 Department of Mathematics, National Polytechnic Institute, P.O. Box 8390, Yaounde, Cameroon ´ Correspondence should be addressed to Louis Aime Fono, lfono2000@yahoo.fr ´ Received 3 July 2008; Revised 24 December 2008; Accepted 15 June 2009 Recommended by Andrzej Skowron We establish, by means of a large class of continuous t-representable intuitionistic fuzzy t-conorms, a factorization of an intuitionistic fuzzy relation IFR into a unique indifference component and a family of regular strict components. Th