This paper models a decision support system to predict the occurance of
suicide attack in a given collection of cities. The system comprises two parts.
First part analyzes and identifies the factors which affect the prediction.
Admitting incomplete information and use of linguistic terms by experts, as two
characteristic features of this peculiar prediction problem we exploit the
Theory of Fuzzy Soft Sets.
Notions of core, support and inversion of a soft set have been de ned and
studied. Soft approximations are soft sets developed through core and support,
and are used for granulating the soft space. Membership structure of a soft set
has been probed in and many interesting properties presented. The mathematical
apparatus developed so far in this paper yields a detailed analysis of two
works viz. [N. Cagman, S. Enginoglu, Soft set theory and uni-int decision
making, European Jr. of Operational Research (article in press, available
online 12 May 2010)] and [N. Cagman, S.
In this paper, we define the notion of a mapping on soft classes and study
several properties of images and inverse images of soft sets supported by
examples and counterexamples. Finally, these notions have been applied to the
problem of medical diagnosis in medical expert systems.
In [P. Majumdar, S. K. Samanta, Similarity measure of soft sets, New
Mathematics and Natural Computation 4(1)(2008) 1-12], the authors use matrix
representation based distances of soft sets to introduce matching function and
distance based similarity measures. We first give counterexamples to show that
their Definition 2.7 and Lemma 3.5(3) contain errors, then improve their Lemma
4.4 making it a corllary of our result. The fundamental assumption of Majumdar
et al has been shown to be flawed. This motivates us to introduce set
operations based measures.