Manipal University Jaipur

Department of Information Technology

IT3140 Soft Computing
Section B
Assignment 1
Date Uploaded: 09/08/2023
Last Date to be submitted: 13/08/2023
1. List down the approximate height of 20 persons you know in feet
and inches. Then identify whether consider them tall, medium or
short. Try to draw the membership functions for these fuzzy
terms.
2. Which of the following terms are fuzzy or crisp according to you.
Justify your answer.
a. Even numbers if the universe is all natural numbers.
b. Humans when the universe is all living beings.
c. Whites and Blacks out of all human beings based on the
color of skin.
d. Cloudy out of all weather conditions.
e. Hot out of all weather conditions.
f. Hilly region out of all geographical regions
g. Intelligent students out of all students in the class.
h. Rank Holders out of all students in the class.
i. Rich out of all people in a society.
j. Indians out of all humans.
k. Trucks out of all vehicles.
l. Tables out of all furniture items in a class room.
m. Comfortable out of all seating locations in a classroom.
3. Out of following sets which could be Fuzzy sets
 a. {2/3+0.3/4+0.6/7}
b. {(2,3), (4,0.3), (7,0.6)}
c. {0.3/4+0.6/5+0.7/4+0.8/8}
d. {(4,0.3),(5,0.6),(8,0.8)
e. {(x,0),(y,1),(z,1)}
f. {(x,0),(y,0),(z,0)}
g. {(x,1),(y,1),(z,1)}
h. {(x,-0.2),(y,0.3),(z,0.4)}
i. {(x,1.2),(y,1),(z,1)}
4. Which of the sets given in 3 are crisp sets.
5. In the following set what is 0.6-cut set and strong 0.6-cut set.
a. {0.3/4+0.6/5+0.7/4+0.8/8}
6. State for the following that which type of membership function
they denote.

7. Define following terms with illustration.

a. Universe of Discourse
b. Closed and Open Fuzzy sets.
c. Support and Core of a fuzzy set.
d. Singleton