Approximate Reasoning by Parts An Introduction to Rough Mereology /

• Main Author: Polkowski, Lech (Author)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Berlin, Heidelberg : Springer Berlin Heidelberg, 2011.
• Series: Intelligent Systems Reference Library, 20
• Subjects: Engineering.; Artificial intelligence.; Computational intelligence.; Computational Intelligence.; Artificial Intelligence (incl. Robotics).

--- PLEASE take the tex- version --- The monograph offers a view on Rough Mereology, a tool for reasoning under uncertainty, which goes back to Mereology, formulated in terms of  parts by Lesniewski, and borrows from Fuzzy Set Theory and Rough Set Theory ideas of the containment to a degree. The res...

Table of Contents:

• From the content: Concepts. Aristotelian and Set-theoretic Approaches
• Topology of Concepts
• Reasoning. Patterns of Deductive Reasoning
• Reductive Reasoning. Rough and Fuzzy Sets as Frameworks for Reductive Reasoning
• Mereology.