Books in the Studies in Fuzziness and Soft Computing series

This book presents an uncertainty modeling approach using a new type of fuzzy system model via "Fuzzy Functions". It also reviews standard tools of fuzzy system modeling approaches to demonstrate the novelty of the structurally different fuzzy function.

The intensity of global competition and ever-increasing economic uncertainties has led organizations to search for more efficient and effective ways to manage their business operations. Fuzzy DEA (FDEA) is a promising extension of the conventional DEA proposed for dealing with imprecise and ambiguous data in performance measurement problems.

This book introduces readers to the novel concept of spherical fuzzy sets, showing how these sets can be applied in practice to solve various decision-making problems.

This book offers the first comprehensive and critical literature review of fuzzy pairwise comparison methods derived from methods originally developed for crisp pairwise comparison matrices.

Theories cover a wealth of topics, such as fuzzy logic, cognitive modeling, Bayesian and probabilistic methods, multi-criteria decision making, utility theory, approximate reasoning, human-centric computing and many others.

Thisbook shows how common operation management methods and algorithms can beextended to deal with vague or imprecise information in decision-makingproblems.

It covers topics such as fuzzy intuitionistic Hilbert spaces, intuitionistic fuzzy differential equations, fuzzy intuitionistic metric spaces, and numerical methods for differential equations.

This book provides readers with an insight into the development of a novel method for regridding gridded spatial data, an operation required to perform the map overlay operation and apply map algebra when processing spatial data.

This book offers the first comprehensive and critical literature review of fuzzy pairwise comparison methods derived from methods originally developed for crisp pairwise comparison matrices.

This comprehensive introduction to methods of 'intuitionistic' decision-making explains in detail a variety of models and approaches to interactive decision-making with intuitionistic fuzzy information, as well as systematic coverage of aggregation techniques.

The book provides a comprehensive and timely report on the topic of decision making and decision analysis in economics and the social sciences.

The book offers a valuable resource for readers involved in theoretical research and practical applications from a range of different fields including game theory, operational research, management science, fuzzy mathematical programming, fuzzy mathematics, industrial engineering, business and social economics.

It examines recent advances in the field, such as aggregation on lattices, penalty-based aggregation and weakly monotone averaging, and extends many of the already existing methods, such as: ordered weighted averaging (OWA), fuzzy integrals and mixture functions.

This book is focused on mathematical analysis and rigorous design methods for fuzzy control systems based on Takagi-Sugeno fuzzy models, sometimes called Takagi-Sugeno-Kang models.

This book presents an early software reliability prediction model that will help to grow the reliability of software systems by monitoring it in each development phase, from requirement to testing.

Decision and Game Theory in Management With Intuitionistic Fuzzy Sets

From the inception of the PERT method in the 1950's, it was acknowledged that data concerning activity duration times is generally not perfectly known and the study of stochastic PERT was launched quite early.

This text offers the general scientific community the epistemic framework of fuzzy paradigm and the rationality it induces for approximate reasoning. It also describes the role fuzzy rationality plays in our information-knowledge enterprise.

Rule-basedevolutionaryonlinelearningsystems,oftenreferredtoasMichig- style learning classi?er systems (LCSs), were proposed nearly thirty years ago (Holland, 1976;

This book explores non-extensive statistical mechanics in non-equilibrium thermodynamics, and presents an overview of the strong nonlinearity of chaos and complexity in natural systems, drawing on relevant mathematics from topology, measure-theory, inverse and ill-posed problems, set-valued analysis, and nonlinear functional analysis.

Theories cover a wealth of topics, such as fuzzy logic, cognitive modeling, Bayesian and probabilistic methods, multi-criteria decision making, utility theory, approximate reasoning, human-centric computing and many others.

The respective chapters, written by prominent researchers, explain a wealth of both basic and advanced concepts including: fuzzy probability distributions, fuzzy frequency distributions, fuzzy Bayesian inference, fuzzy mean, mode and median, fuzzy dispersion, fuzzy p-value, and many others.

This book explores recent perspectives on type-2 fuzzy sets. Written as a tribute to Professor Jerry Mendel for his pioneering works on type-2 fuzzy sets and systems, it covers a wide range of topics, including applications to the Go game, machine learning and pattern recognition, as well as type-2 fuzzy control and intelligent systems.

This book provides an essential introduction to the field of dynamical models. On one hand, the book equips readers with a fundamental understanding of the theoretical underpinnings of fuzzy sets and fuzzy dynamical systems.

This book offers a comprehensive analysis of the social choice literature and shows, by applying fuzzy sets, how the use of fuzzy preferences, rather than that of strict ones, may affect the social choice theorems. Moreover, the median voter theorem is shown to hold under strict fuzzy preferences but not under weak fuzzy preferences.

This volume is the second in a series on the role of fuzzy paradigm and fuzzy rationality within the theory of knowledge. This one is devoted to unified epistemic models and theories of decision-choice under total uncertainties.

This book explores the technologies and approaches of fuzzy logic in the Semantic Web. Coverage includes fuzzy description logics and fuzzy ontologies, fuzzy Semantic Web ontology mapping, and fuzzy rules and their interchange in the Semantic Web.

This book offers a timely snapshot of soft computing methodologies and their applications to various problems related to sustainability, including electric energy consumption;

This book is open access under a CC BY 4.0 license. This open access book offers comprehensive coverage on Ordered Fuzzy Numbers, providing readers with both the basic information and the necessary expertise to use them in a variety of real-world applications.

The book offers a comprehensive survey of intuitionistic fuzzy logics. Starting with an introduction to the basic elements of intuitionistic fuzzy propositional calculus, it then provides a guide to the use of intuitionistic fuzzy operators and quantifiers, and lastly presents state-of-the-art applications of intuitionistic fuzzy sets.