On the approximation of a membership function by empirical quantile functions

The Average Cumulative representation of fuzzy intervals is connected with the possibility theory in the sense that the possibility and necessity functions are substituted by a pair of non decreasing functions defined as the positive and negative variations in the Jordan decomposition of a membership function. In this paper we motivate the crucial role of ACF in determining the membership function from experimental data; some examples and simulations are shown to state the robustness of the proposed construction. (C) 2020 Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.