m-Polar Fuzzy Sets: An Extension of Bipolar Fuzzy Sets
Recently, bipolar fuzzy sets have been studied and applied a bit enthusiastically and a bit increasingly. In this paper we prove that bipolar fuzzy sets and0,12-sets (which have been deeply studied) are actually cryptomorphic mathematical notions. Since researches or modelings on real world problems often involve multi-agent, multi-attribute, multi-object, multi-index, multi-polar information, uncertainty, or/and limit process, we put forward (or highlight) the notion ofm-polar fuzzy set (actually,0,1m-set which can be seen as a generalization of bipolar fuzzy set, wheremis an arbitrary ordinal number) and illustrate how many concepts have been defined based on bipolar fuzzy sets and many results which are related to these concepts can be generalized to the case ofm-polar fuzzy sets. We also give examples to show how to applym-polar fuzzy sets in real world problems.