IEEE TRANSACTIONS ON FUZZY SYSTEMS, cilt.30, sa.6, ss.1762-1772, 2022 (SCI-Expanded)
The ordinal sum of t-norms on a bounded lattice has been used to construct other t-norms. However, an ordinal sum of binary operations (not necessarily t-norms) defined on the fixed subintervals of a bounded lattice may not be a t-norm. Some necessary and sufficient conditions are presented in this article for ensuring that an ordinal sum on a bounded lattice of two binary operations is, in fact, a t-norm. In particular, the results presented here provide an answer to an open problem put forward by Ertugrul and Yesilyurt, ordinal sums of triangular norms on bounded lattices, Inf. Sci., vol. 517, (2020) 198-216.