INFORMATION SCIENCES, cilt.176, sa.20, ss.3011-3025, 2006 (SCI-Expanded)
In this paper, we discuss the direct product of strong negations. We characterize strong negations on product lattices that are direct products of strong negations. Furthermore, we present a method for constructing t-norms on product lattices which are not direct products. This method is quite general and useful to generate a wide class of such t-norms and solves an open problem posed in 2003 by Jenei and De Baets. Finally, we study direct decompositions of S-implication operators on product lattices. (C) 2005 Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.