“…Presumably, the SVD technique in this paper and in [12] and [13] can be replaced by other orthogonal techniques investigated by Yen and Wang in [11]. An extension of [11] to multidimensional cases may also be conducted in a similar fashion as the higher order SVD reduction technique proposed in [10], [12], and [13] and in this paper. Further developments of SVD-based fuzzy reduction [12], [13] are proposed in [10], [17], [18], and [38].…”