Soft set relations and functions

The traditional soft set is a mapping from a parameter to the crisp subset of universe. Molodtsov introduced the theory of soft sets as a generalized tool for modeling complex systems involving uncertain or not clearly defined objects. In this paper the concepts of soft set relations are introduced as a sub soft set of the Cartesian product of the soft sets and many related concepts such as equivalent soft set relation, partition, composition, function etc. are discussed. (C) 2010 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.