Metric spaces and their various generalizations occur frequently in computer science applications. This is the reason why, in this paper, we introduced and studied the concept of fuzzy b-metric space, generalizing, in this way, both the notion of fuzzy metric space introduced by I. Kramosil and J. Michálek and the concept of b-metric space. On the other hand, we introduced the concept of fuzzy quasi-bmetric space, extending the notion of fuzzy quasi metric space recently introduced by V. Gregori and S. Romaguera. Finally, a decomposition theorem for a fuzzy quasipseudo- b-metric into an ascending family of quasi-pseudo-b-metrics is established. The use of fuzzy b-metric spaces and fuzzy quasi-b-metric spaces in the study of denotational semantics and their applications in control theory will be an important next step.

This paper is dedicated to Professor Ioan Dzitac (1953–2021). Therefore, his life has been briefly presented as well as a comprehensive overview of his major contributions in the domain of soft computing methods in a fuzzy environment. This paper is part of a special reverential volume, dedicated to the Centenary of the Birth of Lotfi A. Zadeh, whom Ioan Dzitac considered to be is his mentor, and to whom he showed his gratitude many times and in innumerable ways, including by being the Guest Editor of this Special Issue. Professor Ioan Dzitac had many important achievements throughout his career: he was co-founder and Editor-in-Chief of an ISI Expanded quoted journal, International Journal of Computers Communications & Control; together with L.A. Zadeh, D. Tufis and F.G. Filip he edited the volume “From Natural Language to Soft Computing: New Paradigms in Artificial Intelligence”; his scientific interest focused on different sub-fields: fuzzy logic applications, soft computing in a fuzzy environment, artificial intelligence, learning platform, distributed systems in internet. He had the most important contributions in soft computing in a fuzzy environment. Some of them will be presented in this paper. Finally, some future trends are discussed.

In this paper we continue the study of fuzzy continuous mappings in fuzzy normed linear spaces initiated by T. Bag and S.K. Samanta, as well as by I. Sadeqi and F.S. Kia, in a more general settings. Firstly, we introduce the notion of uniformly fuzzy continuous mapping and we establish the uniform continuity theorem in fuzzy settings. Furthermore, the concept of fuzzy Lipschitzian mapping is introduced and a fuzzy version for Banach’s contraction principle is obtained. Finally, a special attention is given to various characterizations of fuzzy continuous linear operators. Based on our results, classical principles of functional analysis (such as the uniform boundedness principle, the open mapping theorem and the closed graph theorem) can be extended in a more general fuzzy context.

In the present paper some different types of boundedness in fuzzy normed linear spaces of type $(X,N,\ast )$ , where ∗ is an arbitrary t-norm, are considered. These boundedness concepts are very general and some of them have no correspondent in the classical topological metrizable linear spaces. Properties of such bounded sets are given and we make a comparative study among these types of boundedness. Among them there are various concepts concerning symmetrical properties of the studied objects arisen from the classical setting appropriate for this journal topics. We establish the implications between them and illustrate by examples that these concepts are not similar.