The concept of fuzzy pre-independence set system and that of fuzzy ind
ependence set system are introduced and investigated in this paper. Th
e properties ''to be closed'', ''to be perfect'' and ''to be strongly
regular'' of a fuzzy independence set system are also considered. Seve
ral propositions concerning bases of closed perfect fuzzy independence
set systems are presented. An important subclass of perfect fuzzy ind
ependence set systems, are fuzzy matroids, introduced by Goetschel and
Voxman [Fuzzy Sets and Systems 27 (1988) 291; 31 (1989) 253]. (C) 199
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