Fuzzy Relation:

Fuzzy relations are fuzzy subsets of X×Y , i.e., mapping from X → Y . It

maps elements of one universe, X to those of another universe, say Y ,
through the Cartesian product of the two universes.
A fuzzy relation R is mapping from the Cartesian space X × Y to the
interval [0, 1] where the strength of the mapping is expressed by the
membership function of the relation for ordered pairs from the two expressed
as or µR (x, y).
This can be expressed as
R = {((x, y), µR (x, y))|(x, y) ∈ X × Y } is called a fuzzy relation on X × Y .
Where the fuzzy relation R has membership
function
μR (x,
y) = μA X B (x, y) = min (μA (x), μB (y))
i.e. each element of X belongs to the domain of R to a degree equal
to the strength of its strongest relation to any y ∈ Y .

Range and Height

The range ran of R(X,Y ) is a fuzzy relation on Y whose
membership function is defined for each y ∈ Y as
i.e. the strength of the strongest relation which each y
∈ Y has to an x ∈ X equals to the degree of
membership of y in the range of R. The height h of
R(X,Y ) is a number defined by

h(R) is the largest membership grade obtained by any pair (x, y) ∈

R
Operation of fuzzy relation
Composition of fuzzy relation
Max-min composition:

max-product composition: