Fuzzy Reasoning in Decision Making and Optimization

Carlsson, Christer; Fuller, Robert

ISBN 10: 3790814288 / ISBN 13: 9783790814286

Published by Physica, 2001

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Fuzzy Reasoning in Decision Making and Optimization
• Publisher: Physica
• Publication Date: 2001
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 3790814288
• ISBN 13: 9783790814286
• Binding: Hardcover
• Condition: As New

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Synopsis

Many decision-making tasks are too complex to be understood quantitatively, however, humans succeed by using knowledge that is imprecise rather than precise. Fuzzy logic resembles human reasoning in its use of imprecise informa­ tion to generate decisions. Unlike classical logic which requires a deep under­ standing of a system, exact equations, and precise numeric values, fuzzy logic incorporates an alternative way of thinking, which allows modeling complex systems using a higher level of abstraction originating from our knowledge and experience. Fuzzy logic allows expressing this knowledge with subjective concepts such as very big and a long time which are mapped into exact numeric ranges. Since knowledge can be expressed in a more natural by using fuzzy sets, many decision (and engineering) problems can be greatly simplified. Fuzzy logic provides an inference morphology that enables approximate human reasoning capabilities to be applied to knowledge-based systems. The theory of fuzzy logic provides a mathematical strength to capture the un­ certainties associated with human cognitive processes, such as thinking and reasoning. The conventional approaches to knowledge representation lack the means for representating the meaning of fuzzy concepts. As a consequence, the approaches based on first order logic do not provide an appropriate con­ ceptual framework for dealing with the representation of commonsense knowl­ edge, since such knowledge is by its nature both lexically imprecise and non­ categorical.

From the Back Cover

This book starts with the basic concepts of fuzzy arithmetics and progresses through the analysis of sup-t-norm-extended arithmetic operations, possibilistic linear systems and fuzzy reasoning approaches to fuzzy optimization. Four applications of (interdependent) fuzzy optimization and fuzzy reasoning to strategic planning, project management with real options, strategic management and supply chain management are presented and carefully discussed. The book ends with a detailed description of some intelligent software agents, where fuzzy reasoning schemes are used to enhance their functionality. It can be useful for researchers and students working in soft computing, applied mathematics, operations research, management science, information systems, intelligent agents and artificial intelligence.