In 1986, Badard introduced the concept of a smooth topological space a
s a generalization of a classical as well as a Chang fuzzy topology. I
n this paper we introduce the notions of smooth interior and smooth cl
osure of a fuzzy set and we derive some of their structural properties
. Secondly the concepts subspace, smooth compactness, smooth almost co
mpactness, and smooth near compactness are introduced and studied in t
he general framework of smooth topological spaces.