Author: Darby Conley
Publisher: Andrews McMeel Publishing
Keywords: fuzzy, novel, graphic, treasury, potpourrific, grab
Number of Pages: 248
Published: 2008-09-23
List price: $16.99
ISBN-10: 0740773674
ISBN-13: 9780740773679

On the Media lauds Darby Conley as "the most successful cartoonist of the new generation." --National Public RadioAs Darby Conley’s fourth treasury, this title presents strips from I’m Ready for My Movie Contract and Take Our Cat, Please!Named Best Comic Strip of the Year in 2002 by the National Cartoonists Society, Darby Conley’s Get Fuzzy takes a keen and witty look at the dynamics of interspecies cohabitation.Beleaguered ad exec Rob Wilco is the mild-mannered guardian to Bucky, a sharp-fanged, self-absorbed house cat with a penchant for scheming and screenwriting, and Satc

Authors:Lotfi Asker Zadeh,  George J. Klir, Bo Yua,
Publisher: World Scientific Publishing Company
Keywords: fuzzy, systems, advances, vol, applications, zadeh, theory, papers, sets, logic, selected, lotfi
Number of Pages: 826
Published: 1996-06-01
List price: $160.00
ISBN-10: 9810224214
ISBN-13: 9789810224219

This book consists of selected papers written by the founder of fuzzy set theory, Lotfi A Zadeh. Since Zadeh is not only the founder of this field, but has also been the principal contributor to its development over the last 30 years, the papers contain virtually all the major ideas in fuzzy set theory, fuzzy logic, and fuzzy systems in their historical context. Many of the ideas presented in the papers are still open to further development. The book is thus an important resource for anyone interested in the areas of fuzzy set theory, fuzzy logic, and fuzzy systems, as well as their applicatio

Authors:Oscar Cordon, Francisco Herrera, Frank Hoffmann, Luis
Publisher: World Scientific Publishing Company
Keywords: fuzzy, systems, advances, applications, theory, bases, amp, learning, evolutionary, tuning, genetic, knowledge
Number of Pages: 488
Published: 2002-02-15
List price: $65.00
ISBN-10: 9810240171
ISBN-13: 9789810240172

A number of publications have explored the use of genetic algorithms as a tool for designing fuzzy systems. This volume explores and discusses this symbiosis of evolutionary computation and fuzzy logic. The book summarizes and analyzes the field of genetic fuzzy systems, paying special attention to genetic algorithms that adapt and learn the knowledge base of a fuzzy-rule-based system. It introduces the general concepts, foundations and design principles of genetic fuzzy systems and covers the topic of genetic tuning of fuzzy systems. It also introduces the three fundamental approaches to gene

Authors:Hong-Xing Li, Vincent C. Yen,
Publisher: CRC-Press
Keywords: fuzzy, decisionmaking, sets
Number of Pages: 288
Published: 1995-09-30
List price: $79.95
ISBN-10: 0849389313
ISBN-13: 9780849389313

The increasing number of applications of fuzzy mathematics has generated interest in widely ranging fields, from engineering and medicine to the humanities and management sciences. Fuzzy Sets and Fuzzy Decision-Making provides an introduction to fuzzy set theory and lays the foundation of fuzzy mathematics and its applications to decision-making. New concepts are simplified with the use of figures and diagrams, and methods are discussed in terms of their direct applications in obtaining solutions to real problems, particularly to decision-related problems.The first chapter presents the current

Authors:William Siler, James J. Buckley,
Publisher: Wiley-Interscience
Keywords: fuzzy, reasoning, expert, systems
Number of Pages: 424
Published: 2004-12-13
List price: $125.95
ISBN-10: 0471388599
ISBN-13: 9780471388593

Fuzzy sets were for a long time not accepted by the AI community. Now they have become highly evolved and their techniques are well established.  This book will teach the reader how to construct a fuzzy expert system to solve real-world problems. After a general discussion of expert systems, the basic fuzzy math required is presented first, requiring little more math background than high-school algebra. This book will fill a void in the market because although there are many books on expert systems, none devote more than a few pages to the notion of fuzzy sets and their applications in this d

Authors:George J. Klir, Bo Yuan,
Publisher: Prentice Hall
Keywords: fuzzy, applications, theory, logic, sets
Number of Pages: 592
Published: 1995-05-21
List price: $93.33
ISBN-10: 0131011715
ISBN-13: 9780131011717

Provides the reader with comprehensive coverage of theoretical foundations of fuzzy set theory and fuzzy logic, as well as a broad overview of the increasingly important applications of these novel areas of mathematics. DLC: Fuzzy sets.

Authors:Gert De Roo, Geoff Porter,
Publisher: Ashgate Publishing
Keywords: fuzzy, environment, governance, role, planning, actors
Number of Pages: 233
Published: 2007-01-22
List price: $99.95
ISBN-10: 0754649628
ISBN-13: 9780754649625

Many of the key notions associated with spatial planning, such as ’sustainability’ and ’compact city’ are essentially ’fuzzy’ in their nature. For example, while almost everyone accepts ’sustainability’ as one of the more important goals of planning, the outcome of the ambition to achieve ’sustainability’ is often almost non-existent. Actors might inadvertently act in conflicting ways in the mistaken belief that their actions are contributing to ’sustainable development’. In this kind of situation, the outcome of planning