FUZZY REASONING IN DECISION MAKING AND OPTIMIZATION by Christer Carlsson, Robert Fuller ( 9783790814286 )

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FUZZY REASONING IN DECISION MAKING AND OPTIMIZATION

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ISBN 10:

3790814288

ISBN 13:

9783790814286

Publisher:

SPRINGER-VERLAG BERLIN AND HEIDELBERG GMBH & CO. KG

Pub. date:

9 October, 2001

Edition:

2002 ed.

Series:

Studies in Fuzziness and Soft Computing 82

Pages:

338

Description:

This work explores the basic concepts of fuzzy arithmetics and the analysis of sup-t-norm-extended arithmetic operations, possibilistic linear systems and fuzzy reasoning approaches to fuzzy optimization. It ends with a description of some intelligent software agents.

Synopsis:

Many decision-making tasks are too complex to be understood quantitatively, however, humans succeed by using knowledge that is imprecise rather than precise. Fuzzy logic resembles human reasoning in its use of imprecise informa- tion to generate decisions. Unlike classical logic which requires a deep under- standing of a system, exact equations, and precise numeric values, fuzzy logic incorporates an alternative way of thinking, which allows modeling complex systems using a higher level of abstraction originating from our knowledge and experience. Fuzzy logic allows expressing this knowledge with subjective concepts such as very big and a long time which are mapped into exact numeric ranges. Since knowledge can be expressed in a more natural by using fuzzy sets, many decision (and engineering) problems can be greatly simplified. Fuzzy logic provides an inference morphology that enables approximate human reasoning capabilities to be applied to knowledge-based systems. The theory of fuzzy logic provides a mathematical strength to capture the un- certainties associated with human cognitive processes, such as thinking and reasoning. The conventional approaches to knowledge representation lack the means for representating the meaning of fuzzy concepts. As a consequence, the approaches based on first order logic do not provide an appropriate con- ceptual framework for dealing with the representation of commonsense knowl- edge, since such knowledge is by its nature both lexically imprecise and non- categorical.

Illustrations:

5 Tables, black and white; XIII, 338 p.

Publication:

Germany

Imprint:

Physica-Verlag GmbH & Co

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Returnable

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