Soft Computing in Measurement and Information Acquisition

• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Other Authors: Reznik, Leon (Editor, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/edt), Kreinovich, Vladik (Editor, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/edt)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Berlin, Heidelberg : Springer Berlin Heidelberg : Imprint: Springer, 2003.
• Edition: 1st ed. 2003.
• Series: Studies in Fuzziness and Soft Computing, 127
• Subjects: Computers.; Applied mathematics.; Engineering mathematics.; Application software.; Electrical engineering.; Information technology.; Business-Data processing.; Theory of Computation.; Mathematical and Computational Engineering.; Computer Applications.; Applications of Mathematics.; Electrical Engineering.; IT in Business.

The vigorous development of the internet and other information technologies have significantly expanded the amount and variety of sources of information available on decision making. This book presents the current trends of soft computing applications to the fields of measurements and information ac...

Table of Contents:

• Uncertainty in Measurement: Some Thoughts about its Expressing and Processing
• Why Two Sigma? A Theoretical Justification for an Empirical Measurement Practice
• Fuzzy Linguistic Scales: Definition, Properties and Applications
• A Fuzzy Shape Specification System to Support Design for Aesthetics
• Generating Membership Functions for a Noise Annoyance Model from Experimental Data
• An Exegesis of Data Fusion
• Possibilistic Logic: A Theoretical Framework for Multiple Source Information Fusion
• Automated Adaptive Situation Assessment
• Soft Computing, Real-time Measurement and Information Processing in a Modern Brewery
• The Aggregation of Industrial Performance Information by the Choquet Fuzzy Integral
• Computing Image with an Analog Circuit Inspired by the Outer Retinal Network
• Extending the Decision Accuracy of a Bioinformatics System
• On Fuzzy Controllers Having Radial Basis Transfer Functions
• Evolutionary Scene Recognition and Simultaneous Position/Orientation Detection
• Evolutionary Dynamics Identification of Multi-Link Manipulators Using Runge - Kutta - Gill RBF Networks
• Towards Reliable Sub-Division of Geological Areas: Interval Approach
• A Fuzzy Classifier with Pyramidal Membership Functions
• A Comparison of Soft Computing and Traditional Approaches for Risk Classification and Claim Cost Prediction in the Automobile Insurance Industry
• Evolutionary Rule Generation and its Application to Credit Scoring
• Social Fuzziology in Action: Acquisition and Making Sense of Social Information.