This book exclusively surveys the active on-going research of the current maturity of fuzzy logic over the last four decades. Many world leaders of fuzzy logic have enthusiastically contributed their best research results into five theoretical, philosophical and fundamental sub areas and nine distinctive applications, including two PhD dissertations from two world class universities dealing with cutting-edge research areas of bioinformatics and geological science. Beyond the scope of survey and collection of the book, one important spin off is the emerging and recognition of a major scientific paradigm shift from the conventional mathematics to the mathematics of uncertainty, which arguably holds the key to solving very difficult and complex problems in biological and social sciences alike. The book, loaded with historical perspective, creative thinking, critical reviewing, and uniquely constructed strategy for future growth of this dynamic research area, is an invaluable resource for active researchers at all levels, university administrators, foundation directors, funding agency program chiefs, research & development planners and technological assessors.
Author(s): Paul P. Wang, Da Ruan, Etienne E. Kerre (auth.), Paul P. Wang, Da Ruan, Etienne E. Kerre (eds.)
Series: Studies in Fuzziness and Soft Computing 215
Edition: 1
Publisher: Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg
Year: 2007
Language: English
Pages: 459
Tags: Appl.Mathematics/Computational Methods of Engineering; Artificial Intelligence (incl. Robotics); Computational Linguistics
Front Matter....Pages I-XVI
Why Fuzzy Logic? – A Spectrum of Theoretical and Pragmatics Issues....Pages 1-13
On Fuzzy Set Theories....Pages 15-47
Uninorm Basics....Pages 49-64
Structural Interpolation and Approximation with Fuzzy Relations: A Study in Knowledge Reuse....Pages 65-77
On Fuzzy Logic and Chaos Theory....Pages 79-97
Upper and Lower Values for the Level of Fuzziness in FCM....Pages 99-112
Mathematical Modeling of Natural Phenomena: A Fuzzy Logic Approach....Pages 113-134
Mathematical Fuzzy Logic in Modeling of Natural Language Semantics....Pages 135-172
Analytical Theory of Fuzzy IF-THEN Rules with Compositional Rule of Inference....Pages 174-191
Fuzzy Logic and Ontology-based Information Retrieval....Pages 193-218
Real-World Fuzzy Logic Applications in Data Mining and Information Retrieval....Pages 219-247
Gene Regulatory Network Modeling: A Data Driven Approach....Pages 247-281
An Abstract Approach Toward the Evaluation of Fuzzy Rule Systems....Pages 281-297
Nuclear Reactor Power Control Using State Feedback with Fuzzy Logic....Pages 299-315
The Fusion of Genetic Algorithms and Fuzzy Classification for Transient Identification....Pages 317-336
The Role of Fuzziness in Decision Making....Pages 337-349
Fuzzy Linear Bilevel Optimization: Solution Concepts, Approaches and Applications....Pages 351-379
Fuzzy Predictive Earth Analysis Constrained by Heuristics Applied to Stratigraphic Modeling....Pages 381-430
Fuzzy Logic for Modeling the Management of Technology....Pages 431-455
Back Matter....Pages 457-459
