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This book inclusively and systematically presents the fundamental
methods, models and techniques of practical application of grey
data analysis, bringing together the authors' many years of
theoretical exploration, real-life application, and teaching. It
also reflects the majority of recent theoretical and applied
advances in the theory achieved by scholars from across the world,
providing readers a vivid overall picture of this new theory and
its pioneering research activities. The book includes 12 chapters,
covering the introduction to grey systems, a novel framework of
grey system theory, grey numbers and their operations, sequence
operators and grey data mining, grey incidence analysis models,
grey clustering evaluation models, series of GM models, combined
grey models, techniques for grey systems forecasting, grey models
for decision-making, techniques for grey control, etc. It also
includes a software package that allows practitioners to
conveniently and practically employ the theory and methods
presented in this book. All methods and models presented here were
chosen for their practical applicability and have been widely
employed in various research works. I still remember 1983, when I
first participated in a course on Grey System Theory. The
mimeographed teaching materials had a blue cover and were presented
as a book. It was like finding a treasure: This fascinating book
really inspired me as a young intellectual going through a period
of confusion and lack of academic direction. It shone with pearls
of wisdom and offered a beacon in the mist for a man trying to find
his way in academic research. This book became the guiding light in
my life journey, inspiring me to forge an indissoluble bond with
Grey System Theory. --Sifeng Liu
This book inclusively and systematically presents the fundamental
methods, models and techniques of practical application of grey
data analysis, bringing together the authors' many years of
theoretical exploration, real-life application, and teaching. It
also reflects the majority of recent theoretical and applied
advances in the theory achieved by scholars from across the world,
providing readers a vivid overall picture of this new theory and
its pioneering research activities. The book includes 12 chapters,
covering the introduction to grey systems, a novel framework of
grey system theory, grey numbers and their operations, sequence
operators and grey data mining, grey incidence analysis models,
grey clustering evaluation models, series of GM models, combined
grey models, techniques for grey systems forecasting, grey models
for decision-making, techniques for grey control, etc. It also
includes a software package that allows practitioners to
conveniently and practically employ the theory and methods
presented in this book. All methods and models presented here were
chosen for their practical applicability and have been widely
employed in various research works. I still remember 1983, when I
first participated in a course on Grey System Theory. The
mimeographed teaching materials had a blue cover and were presented
as a book. It was like finding a treasure: This fascinating book
really inspired me as a young intellectual going through a period
of confusion and lack of academic direction. It shone with pearls
of wisdom and offered a beacon in the mist for a man trying to find
his way in academic research. This book became the guiding light in
my life journey, inspiring me to forge an indissoluble bond with
Grey System Theory. --Sifeng Liu
This book aims to provide a practical guide by a set of real world
applications of grey systems to social networks, energy management,
transportation, natural disaster management, etc. As an
emerging subject on data analysis and uncertainty modelling, the
theory of grey systems and its applications have seen significant
progress in recent years. However, researchers are still
challenged with difficulties in differentiating grey systems from
other similar models and a concise and practical guide for their
real world applications. This is especially true for researchers in
Europe and North American. This book may provide the answer for
that. This book is a result of work within the Leverhulme Trust
International Research Network on Grey Systems and its
Applications. Readers may regard the book as valuable reference in
the related fields.
The book covers up-to-date theoretical and applied advances in grey
systems theory from across the world and vividly presents the
reader with the overall picture of this new theory and its frontier
research. Many of the concepts, models and methods in the book are
original by the authors, including simplified form of grey number,
general grey number and the operations of grey numbers; the
axiomatic system of buffer operators and a series of weakening and
strengthening operators; a series of grey relational analysis
models, including grey absolute, relative, synthetic, similarity,
closeness, negative and three dimension degree, etc.; grey fixed
weight clustering model, grey evaluation models based on
center-point and end-point mixed possibility functions; original
difference grey model (ODGM), even difference grey model (EDGM),
discrete grey model (DGM), fractional grey models, self-memory grey
models; multi-attribute intelligent grey target decision models,
weight vector group with kernel and the weighted comprehensive
clustering coefficient vector, and spectrum analysis of sequence
operators, etc. This book will be appropriate as a reference and/or
professional book for courses of grey system theory for graduate
students or high-level undergraduate students, majoring in areas of
science, technology, agriculture, medicine, astronomy, earth
science, economics, and management. It can also be utilized by
researchers and practitioners in research institutions, business
entities, and government agencies.
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