A GENERAL FRAMEWORK FOR COMPUTING WITH WORDS IN OBJECT-ORIENTED PROGRAMMING

Computing with words (CWW) techniques have been shown to be useful in the management of imperfect information. From the programmer's standpoint, new tools are necessary to ease the use of these techniques within current programming platforms. This paper presents a step in this direction by describing a general framework that supports the implementation of applications dealing with fuzzy objects. We pay special attention to the study of the object comparison problem by offering both a theoretical analysis and a simple and transparent way to use our theoretical results in practice.