Computing With Words,9780471353744

Computing With Words

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Edition: 1st
ISBN13: 9780471353744
ISBN10: 0471353744
Format: Hardcover
Pub. Date: 2001-04-01
Publisher(s): Wiley-Interscience
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Summary

Fuzzy logic refers to a computer2s ability to make decisions involving "grey" or "fuzzy" areas. As linguistics contains numerous "grey" areas, computing with words through the use of fuzzy logic is an extremely hot topic in database and Internet research. This book explores the state of the art in linguistic computation, discussing how current research findings are extending the application of fuzzy logic beyond control engineering and intelligent systems into the use of language on a computer. Fuzzy logic pioneer, Dr. Lofti Zadeh, provides the introduction for this thought-provoking work.

Author Biography

PAUL P. WANG, PhD, received his doctorate from The Ohio State University and is Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering at the Pratt School of Engineering, Duke University in Durham, North Carolina. He has published extensively in the fields of mathematical systems modeling, fuzzy logic, pattern recognition, intelligent systems, and the applications of computational intelligence methodologies to the medical and management expert systems design. His work with Masaki Togai during the 1980s led to the fabrication of the first fuzzy logic chips. Dr. Wang has been a member of the board of directors of several corporations, including Intelligent Machine, Inc. He is also the founder and CEO of the Association for Intelligent Machinery.

Table of Contents

Contributors vii
Foreword ix
Lotfi A. Zadeh
Preface xi
Paul P. Wang
How Do Our Senses Talk to Our Actuators? 1(12)
James S. Albus
Alexander M. Meystel
Computing with Words: Introduction, Implications, and Applications
13(22)
Paul P. Wang
From Computing with Numbers to Computing with Words--From Manipulation of Measurements to Manipulation of Perceptions
35(34)
Lotfi A. Zadeh
Computing with Words: The Problems and Solutions
69(20)
Alexander M. Meystel
Paul P. Wang
Granular Relational Computing with Semiotic Descriptors using BK-Products of Fuzzy Relations
89(58)
Ladislav J. Kohout
Bobby Granville
Eunjin Kim
Computing Granular Word Meanings: A Fuzzy Linguistic Approach in Computational Semiotics
147(62)
Burghard B. Rieger
Extracting Information from Text
209(26)
Amit Bagga
Joyce Chai
Alan Biermann
Cognitive Sciences and Computing with Words
235(16)
Benjoe A. Juliano
Combining Linguistic Information in a Distributed Intelligent Agent Model for Information Gathering on the Internet
251(26)
M. Delgado
F. Herrera
E. Herrera-Viedma
M.J. Martin-Bautista
M.A. Vila
Numeric Robustness and Linguistic Perspicuity: A Hybrid Approach to Knowledge Acquisition
277(20)
Thomas Whalen
Gwangyong Gim
Computing With Descriptive and Veristic Words: Knowledge Representation and Reasoning
297(32)
I.B. Turksen
Principles of Word-Based Knowledge Representation and Knowledge Processing of CW
329(18)
Alexander M. Meystel
Fuzzy Qualitative Reasoning With Words
347(20)
Didier Dubois
Allel Hadj-Ali
Henri Prade
Beyond Process and Action Symbols
367(66)
Tao Yang
Subject Index 433(14)
Name Index 447

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