The book provides an overview of the main concepts and results related to fuzzy matrices and fuzzy relations, using 'fuzzy' in a general sense to mean many-valued. This overview, along with numerous references to original contributions dispersed across various journals, serves as a comprehensive guide for further exploration.This volume can be viewed in two ways: (i) as a companion to the author's previous work, 'Relations: Concrete, Abstract, and Applied' (published by WSPC, 2020)...

The book is intended as an invitation to the topic of relations on a rather general basis. It fills the gap between the basic knowledge offered in countless introductory papers and books (usually comprising orders and equivalences) and the highly specialized monographs on mainly relation algebras, many-valued (fuzzy) relations, or graphs. This is done not only by presenting theoretical results but also by giving hints to some of the many interesting application areas (also including their ...