The Puzzle of Granular Computing

• Main Authors: Apolloni, Bruno (Author), Pedrycz, Witold (Author), Bassis, Simone (Author), Malchiodi, Dario (Author)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Berlin, Heidelberg : Springer Berlin Heidelberg, 2008.
• Series: Studies in Computational Intelligence, 138
• Subjects: Computer science.; Software engineering.; Computers.; Applied mathematics.; Engineering mathematics.; Computer Science.; Theory of Computation.; Appl.Mathematics/Computational Methods of Engineering.; Software Engineering.

Rem tene, verba sequentur (Gaius J. Victor, Rome VI century b.c.) The ultimate goal of this book is to bring the fundamental issues of information granularity, inference tools and problem solving procedures into a coherent, unified, and fully operational framework. The objective is to offer the read...

Table of Contents:

• The General Framework
• Granule Formation Around Data
• I: Algorithmic Inference
• Modeling Samples
• Inferring from Samples
• II: The Development of Fuzzy Sets
• Construction of Information Granules: From Data and Perceptions to Information Granules
• Estimating Fuzzy Sets
• III: Expanding Granula into Boolean Functions
• The Clustering Problem
• Suitably Representing Data
• IV: Directing Populations
• The Main Paradigms of Social Computation
• If also Ants Are Able...
• V: Granular Constructs
• Granular Constructs
• Identifying Fuzzy Rules
• A Conceptual Synthesis
• Knowledge Engineering.