 
                                                                                | Article ID: | iaor1997954 | 
| Country: | Netherlands | 
| Volume: | 81 | 
| Issue: | 1 | 
| Start Page Number: | 5 | 
| End Page Number: | 29 | 
| Publication Date: | Jul 1996 | 
| Journal: | Fuzzy Sets and Systems | 
| Authors: | Kreinovich Vladik, Bouchon-Meunier Bernadette, Lokshin Anatole, Nguyen Hung T. | 
| Keywords: | control | 
The authors give a basic survey of various approaches to defining the maximum point of a (crisp) numerical function over a fuzzy set. This survey is based on several unifying ideas, and includes original comparison results. Motivations and applications will be drawn mainly from control.