Advances in Fuzzy Systems (Jan 2017)

A New Type-2 Soft Set: Type-2 Soft Graphs and Their Applications

  • Khizar Hayat,
  • Muhammad Irfan Ali,
  • Bing-Yuan Cao,
  • Xiao-Peng Yang

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1155/2017/6162753
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 2017

Abstract

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The correspondence between a vertex and its neighbors has an essential role in the structure of a graph. Type-2 soft sets are also based on the correspondence of primary parameters and underlying parameters. In this study, we present an application of type-2 soft sets in graph theory. We introduce vertex-neighbors based type-2 soft sets over X (set of all vertices of a graph) and E (set of all edges of a graph). Moreover, we introduce some type-2 soft operations in graphs by presenting several examples to demonstrate these new concepts. Finally, we describe an application of type-2 soft graphs in communication networks and present procedure as an algorithm.