Soft Methods for Handling Variability and Imprecision

• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Other Authors: Dubois, Didier (Editor), Lubiano, M. Asunción (Editor), Prade, Henri (Editor), Gil, María Ángeles (Editor), Grzegorzewski, Przemysław (Editor), Hryniewicz, Olgierd (Editor)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Berlin, Heidelberg : Springer Berlin Heidelberg, 2008.
• Series: Advances in Soft Computing, 48
• Subjects: Mathematics.; Information technology.; Business > Data processing.; Artificial intelligence.; Computer-aided engineering.; Probabilities.; Statistics.; Applied mathematics.; Engineering mathematics.; Probability Theory and Stochastic Processes.; Computer-Aided Engineering (CAD, CAE) and Design.; Artificial Intelligence (incl. Robotics).; Appl.Mathematics/Computational Methods of Engineering.; Statistics, general.; IT in Business.

Probability theory has been the only well-founded theory of uncertainty for a long time. It was viewed either as a powerful tool for modelling random phenomena, or as a rational approach to the notion of degree of belief. During the last thirty years, in areas centered around decision theory, artifi...