INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF APPROXIMATE REASONING, cilt.128, ss.20-31, 2021 (SCI-Expanded)
In this paper, we introduce observable L-fuzzy subsets of an L-fuzzy set in a locally vague environment, and give their axiomatization. In addition to this, lower and upper observability operators that enable us to approximate non-observable L-fuzzy sets within some observable bounds are studied. In particular, we deal with their topological characterization, and expose that they can be identified with the stratified L-interior and the stratified L-closure operators of a stratified Alexandroff L-topology on an L-fuzzy set. (C) 2020 Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.