Views on Fuzzy Sets and Systems from Different Perspectives Philosophy and Logic, Criticisms and Applications /

• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Other Authors: Seising, Rudolf (Editor)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Berlin, Heidelberg : Springer Berlin Heidelberg, 2009.
• Series: Studies in Fuzziness and Soft Computing, 243
• Subjects: Engineering.; History.; Philosophy.; Artificial intelligence.; Applied mathematics.; Engineering mathematics.; Appl.Mathematics/Computational Methods of Engineering.; Artificial Intelligence (incl. Robotics).; Philosophy, general.; History of Science.

For more than four decades of its existence, the scientific "Fuzzy Group" has grown from a few engineers, working either alone or in small groups to a large scientific community. From the perspective of the history of science, it is quite normal over the course of time for such research pr...

Table of Contents:

• Fuzzy Sets and Systems and Philosophy of Science
• Fuzzy Systems and Scientific Method – Meta-level Reflections and Prospects
• Fuzzy Logic and Science
• Fuzzy Logic, Concepts and Semantic Transformers
• Phenomenology as a Criterion for Formalism Choice
• Computational Theory of Meaning Articulation: A Human Estimation Approach to Fuzzy Arithmetic
• Power Sets, Implications and Set Inclusions Revisited – Retrospect and Prospect: A Review of Bandler and Kohout’s Paper and a Survey of 30 Years of Subsequent Developments
• Probability and Fuzziness – Echoes from 30 Years Back
• On a Model for the Meaning of Predicates – A Naïve Approach to the Genesis of Fuzzy Sets
• Fuzzy Logic as a Theory of Vagueness: 15 Conceptual Questions
• Dialogue Games as Foundation of Fuzzy Logics
• Connecting a Tenable Mathematical Theory to Models of Fuzzy Phenomena
• Many-Valuation, Modality, and Fuzziness
• Fuzzy Thinking in Sociology
• Fuzzy Set Theory and the Philosophical Foundations of Medicine
• Fuzzy Preferences as a Convenient Tool in Group Decision Making and a Remedy for Voting Paradoxes
• What We Are Learning from Neurosciences about Decision-Making: A Quest for Fuzzy Set Technology
• Postmodernism and Control Engineering
• Fuzzy Mechanisms for Qualitative Causal Relations
• On the Relation between Fuzzy and Quantum Logic
• Fuzzy Cluster Analysis from the Viewpoint of Robust Statistics
• On the Usefulness of Fuzzy Sets in Data Mining
• The Uncertainty Associated with a Type-2 Fuzzy Set
• Fuzziness – Representation of Dynamic Changes by Ordered Fuzzy Numbers
• Meta Sets – Another Approach to Fuzziness
• Regression Model Based on Fuzzy Random Variables
• Optimal Workers’ Placement in an Industrial Environment.