Bipolar Dissimilarity and Similarity Correlations of Numbers

Ildar Z. Batyrshin and Edit Tóth-Laufer
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Ildar Z. Batyrshin: Instituto Politécnico Nacional, Centro de Investigación en Computación, Mexico City 07738, Mexico
Edit Tóth-Laufer: Bánki Donát Faculty of Mechanical and Safety Engineering, Óbuda University, Bécsi str 96/b, H-1034 Budapest, Hungary

Mathematics, 2022, vol. 10, issue 5, 1-16

Abstract: Many papers on fuzzy risk analysis calculate the similarity between fuzzy numbers. Usually, they use symmetric and reflexive similarity measures between parameters of fuzzy sets or “centers of gravity” of generalized fuzzy numbers represented by real numbers. This paper studies bipolar similarity functions (fuzzy relations) defined on a domain with involutive (negation) operation. The bipolarity property reflects a structure of the domain with involutive operation, and bipolar similarity functions are more suitable for calculating a similarity between elements of such domain. On the set of real numbers, similarity measures should take into account symmetry between positive and negative numbers given by involutive negation of numbers. Another reason to consider bipolar similarity functions is that these functions define measures of correlation (association) between elements of the domain. The paper gives a short introduction to the theory of correlation functions defined on sets with an involutive operation. It shows that the dissimilarity function generating Pearson’s correlation coefficient is bipolar. Further, it proposes new normalized similarity and dissimilarity functions on the set of real numbers. It shows that non-bipolar similarity functions have drawbacks in comparison with bipolar similarity functions. For this reason, bipolar similarity measures can be recommended for use in fuzzy risk analysis. Finally, the correlation functions between numbers corresponding to bipolar similarity functions are proposed.

Keywords: similarity; fuzzy relation; correlation between numbers; bipolarity; fuzzy risk assessment model (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: C (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2022
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