Fuzzy Sets Theory and Applications (Paperback, Softcover reprint of the original 1st ed. 1986)

Problems in decision making and in other areas such as pattern recogni tion, control, structural engineering etc. involve numerous aspects of uncertainty. Additional vagueness is introduced as models become more complex but not necessarily more meaningful by the added details. During the last two decades one has become more and more aware of the fact that not all this uncertainty is of stochastic (random) cha racter and that, therefore, it can not be modelled appropriately by probability theory. This becomes the more obvious the more we want to represent formally human knowledge. As far as uncertain data are concerned, we have neither instru ments nor reasoning at our disposal as well defined and unquestionable as those used in the probability theory. This almost infallible do main is the result of a tremendous work by the whole scientific world. But when measures are dubious, bad or no longer possible and when we really have to make use of the richness of human reasoning in its variety, then the theories dealing with the treatment of uncertainty, some quite new and other ones older, provide the required complement, and fill in the gap left in the field of knowledge representation. Nowadays, various theories are widely used: fuzzy sets, belief function, the convenient associations between probability and fuzzines~ etc *** We are more and more in need of a wide range of instruments and theories to build models that are more and more adapted to the most complex systems.

General

Imprint:	Springer
Country of origin:	Netherlands
Series:	NATO Science Series C, 177
Release date:	October 2011
First published:	1986
Editors:	Andre Jones • Arnold Kaufmann • Hans-Jurgen Zimmermann
Dimensions:	240 x 160 x 22mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Paperback
Pages:	403
Edition:	Softcover reprint of the original 1st ed. 1986
ISBN-13:	978-9401085816
Categories:	Books > Science & Mathematics > Mathematics > Mathematical foundations > General
LSN:	9401085811
Barcode:	9789401085816

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